Wednesday 1 July 2009

EU goes on the attack over audit regulation
Accountancy Age - London,UK
The directive was supposed to have been implemented across the EU by June 2008 and was designed to boost the quality of audits in Europe. ...
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Financial industry – hedge fund brokers, hedge fund managers ...
By cricketdiane
The City of London is hoping to win support from the US administration to head off tough regulation from Brussels on hedge funds and private equity firms. Delegates from the City of London Corporation, a standard bearer for UK financial ... The EU directive, a response to public anger at the excessive risk-taking that led to the credit crisis, would require many hedge funds and private equity firms to register with regulators and disclose more about themselves and their ...
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Washington help sought as City fights EU hedge fund plan
Financial Times - London,England,UK
The EU directive , a response to public anger at the excessive risk-taking that led to the credit crisis, would require many hedge funds and private equity ...
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How Europe Began Flexing Financial-Regulation Muscle
BusinessWeek - USA
That began to change early this decade, when the EU adopted its Financial Conglomerates Directive, requiring consolidated supervision -- ie, ...
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Approval for Galway bypass 'contravenes' EU law, court told
Irish Times - Dublin,Ireland
Under the habitats directive, Mr Sweetman claims EU member states cannot approve projects which will have a significant impact on a csac and/or priority ...
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BVCA Weighs Into EU Directive Debate
Financier Worldwide - Corporate Finance Intelligence - Birmingham,UK
They have requested that the EU Parliament creates more tailored provisions on capital requirements, risk/liquidity requirements, and independent valuation. ...
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EU Referendum: The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth
By Helen
To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the Written Answer by Lord Malloch-Brown on 4 June (WA 107), why he did not mention that European Union regulations have direct effect in the United Kingdom; and whether, in the light of the United Kingdom's results in the European ... It is clear that the House of Common Library analysis dealt only with Directives that do require parliamentary legislation though this could be secondary, put through by Statutory Instruments. ...
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Last chance for Holocaust restitution?
Jewish Telegraphic Agency - New York,NY,USA
... create a fund immediately to deal with claims. “In Britain we are subject to so many European Union directives,” she said, “why can't there be one on this?”
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Shipowners urged to back EU port emissions directive
Lloyd's List - London,UK
The European Union's port directive, which limits the levels of sulphur in fuel to 0.1% when alongside, come into force next January. ...
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Swedes push for inclusion to avert jobs meltdown
EurActiv - Brussels,Belgium
According to the Swedish prime minister, Europe cannot create jobs by way of communications, regulations and directives from Brussels, but by devising ...
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By Nick TriggleBBC News health reporterThe buzz word « Just ...
By Jimmy
There has been significant progress in implementing EU Directives and recommendations from the IMF's 2008 ... is reassuring. A legal framework for covered bonds should ease banks' access to ECB liquidity . .... But he said the regulations in the UK on what could be tested for were very strict and would remain so. "We're not mad Frankenstein's working away in our laboratories to create designer babies. "We are only allowed to look for major diseases which cause handicaps. ...
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