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In praise of a champion of financial reform and of an simple idea that will come to seem self-evident. America's financial sector has shown renewed strength in recent months...

Summit seeks to end impression of disarray; practical actions to stabilise markets. EU leaders will aim at next week's (15-16 October) summit to project a united response to...

European Central Bank chief says feasibility is a key consideration, and urges co-ordination with US authorities. NICE, France | The president of the European Central...

European commissioner says financial crisis has shown ratings agencies to be “toothless wonders”. Credit-ratings agencies will be subject to mandatory regulation,...

National regulators to boost co-operation At the end of March, US Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson (below) announced what some commentators have called the biggest shake-up...

ALLOWING the US to export 30,000 tonnes of poultry meat to the EU, 0.3% of its total consumption, may not seem much of a breakthrough in a transatlantic trade relationship...

The possibility of a foreign takeover of the London Stock Exchange (LSE) is raising fears that US-style regulation will penetrate the EU. While merger talks con-tinue...

The prospects of Internal Market Commissioner Charlie McCreevy pushing through reforms to securities clearing and settlement systems are brightening on the eve of a...

International convergence in audit and accounting standards does not necessarily mean that Europe will have to adopt the US' more prescriptive rules, according to the deputy...

The US' ambassador to the EU stepped down this week with a call to the EU to reform its regulatory environment, which was, he said, “stifling economies”. But Rockwell...

Charlie McCreevy will meet financial services regulators in the US next week on his first transatlantic visit as commissioner for the internal market. McCreevy will travel...

THE European Commission is attempting to give a boost to corporate governance standards across the EU by creating a forum to discuss how best to converge national codes. The...

FRITS Bolkestein, the internal market commissioner, has promised to press US authorities to get rid of rules which make it almost impossible for companies to withdraw from...

THE European Commission has promised to act alone to boost supervision of US-dominated credit ratings agencies unless American authorities quickly break their “silence”...

A SENIOR US financial regulator has warned EU stock exchanges not to expect to escape American rules when they set-up ‘trading screens' giving Wall Street investors direct...

Sir William Jaffray isn't entirely correct when he writes that Lloyd's ‘rescue' vehicle ‘Equitas' has avoided any scrutiny by the courts (Letters, 28 May-4 June) In 1996...

THE European Commission should come clean and admit that EU cash under its management can and still does disappear without trace, says the head of the executive's internal...

THE past year has been marked by a crisis of trust – trust in government and trust in business. In Italy, the parliament responded to charges of corruption and false...

EU BUSINESSES will be hit by regulatory overkill unless they are spared from a controversial new US law aimed at bolstering flagging investor confidence after the collapse of...

Susan Binns, the European Commission's leading policy advisor on data privacy, sets the scene for future developments in a Q&A with business editor Peter Chapman