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When the regulated do not like the regulation, they jeopardise the regulator's career. Should we worry for Andrea Enria? Central bankers should not only be above suspicion of...

At some points, banks will stop parking money with the European Central Bank. What will they do then? Throughout the crisis period, the European Central Bank's behaviour has...

MEP presents report on bank capital requirements. Countries should not be allowed to set tougher rules for bank capital requirements than those agreed at EU level, according...

MEPs and industry fear credit squeeze. Disagreements over new rules on bank capital look set to put officials from Denmark, which holds the rotating presidency of the Council...

Barnier says fees are holding back growth and competition. The fees that banks charge each other for processing payments will be in the firing line as the European Commission...

Austerity is a word they do not know. Santa Claus came early this year for four former executives of Washington Mutual (WaMu), a large US bank that failed in fall 2008....

Agreement on euro-denominated bank payments. Negotiators working for the European Parliament and the EU's member states have reached a deal on a regulation governing...

Bank will stop offering banking services from June next year. One of Germany's biggest regional banks, Westdeutsche Landesbank, is to be sold off, and its banking activities...

ECB president says changes to European Financial Stability Facility should have been introduced before banking stress tests. Mario Draghi, the president of the European...

City of London's role as a financial centre could be usefully fed into EU thinking. Could I make a suggestion? In the interest of Europe's financial markets, the European...

European Banking Authority says shortfall €114bn, not €106bn. The European Banking Authority today announced that banks in the European Union have a capital...

Lenders to get ECB help, but no such measures for stricken member states; interest rate cut to 1%. The European Central Bank today announced plans to support cash-strapped...

Ministers discuss plans for recapitalisation of EU banks. Finance ministers yesterday discussed plans for recapitalisation of EU banks to protect them against losses of...

World's biggest central banks move to boost bank liquidity. The European Central Bank has taken action with five other central banks to boost liquidity to the banking system.

Group will look at whether banks' retail and investment banking activities should be separated. Michel Barnier, the European commissioner for the internal market, has pledged...

Europe's integration of the banking systems of central and eastern Europe has been hugely beneficial – and is now at risk. The gravity of the eurozone crisis has finally...

Europe's integration of the banking systems of central and eastern Europe has been hugely beneficial – and is now at risk. The gravity of the eurozone crisis has finally...

Emergency package seeks to shore up the shaky banking sector. The European Union's 27 member states agreed to an emergency package of bank recapitalisation to shore up the...

The eurozone rescue package is progress but is not yet a decisive response to the crisis. The deal reached by eurozone leaders in the early hours of Thursday morning...

European Banking Authority says banks need temporary capital buffer to ‘withstand shocks'. The European Union's banking supervisor has estimated that the EU's largest banks...