The European Commission this morning unveiled its initial proposals to regulate ‘shadow banking’ and money market funds (MMFs) – the press...

The Bundesbank , The Deutscher Aktieninstitute (DAI) , and even EU civil servants from the 11 participating countries have all warned again...

There's an old Latin saying, "If you had kept quiet, you would have remained a philosopher." Reading the Commission's de...

It’s been pretty tough to follow where countries stand on the latest proposals for the EU’s Recovery and Resolution Directive , not least be...

The Times reports today on another round of exclusive documents leaked by Open Europe, this time regarding European Commission plans to reg...

It has just been announced that at midnight last night the UK government submitted a challenge against the financial transaction tax to the ...

The European Repo Council of the International Capital Market Association (ICMA) released its bi-annual assessment of the European repo mar...

As we noted in today’s press summary , a tentative EU deal was struck last night on bank bonus curbs, as part of the broader agreement on ...

How big of a problem can a country accounting for 0.2% of eurozone GDP possibly be? Well, potentially pretty big it seems. As expected Nicos...

Well we finally have a deal on one of the longest running sagas in the eurozone crisis – the Irish promissory notes deal. See here f...

A lot has been written over the past few weeks regarding the easing of the Basel III banking rules , which we've been meaning to cover b...

This morning saw the start of the on-going process of repayments of the loans given by the ECB to European banks under the Long Term Refin...

In his monthly press conference on the 10 January 2013 ECB President Mario Draghi struck a relatively upbeat tone on eurozone, in particu...

We've had a look at the latest compromise proposal to turn the ECB into the eurozone's single banking supervisor. It has been put t...

With trouble flaring up in Greece once more and the backstop of the ECB’s bond-buying (OMT) in place, Spain has slipped off the radar sligh...

There’s been another interesting report put out by the IMF today in the form of its ‘ Article IV consultation on the euro area ’ (essential...

The IMF released a few new reports on the global economy today and a raft of new data. There is plenty of interesting stuff in there which w...

Ahead of the summit today the proposals for the EFSF/ESM to start purchasing sovereign debt began rearing its muddled head again, with some ...

The press have got very excited over suggestions from European leaders at the G20 meeting in Los Cabos, Mexico, that they will activate t...

Well, that was the line that Spanish Economy Minister Luis de Guindos was spinning yesterday. Sorry Luis, this is essentially a Spanish res...