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6 issues that will top financial services policy in 2018Get ready for start of MiFID II, euro-clearing debate, and eurozone reforms, among others.Copy LinkCopiedShare via emailShare on XShare on WhatsAppShare on LinkedInFree article usually reserved for subscribersThe offices of Panmure Gordon and Co in London | Carl Court/Getty ImagesPOLICY PRIMERJanuary 4, 20186:00 am CETBy Fiona Maxwell,Cat Contigu
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stanley bicchiere arke Smith-MeyerEMIR 2.2 AND BREXIT:聽Policymakers are still wrangling with the question of when聽and under what exact circumstances a non-EU clearing house should be denied access to EU clients because of the risk it poses. The Commissions origi
stanley shop nal proposal allows any clearing house of substantial systemic importance to the bloc to be denied access to EU clients unless it relocates, which the Parliament supports. But many member countries back the industry view that a forced relocation could undermine financial stability. The rules would likely hit London s largest clearing house, LCH, after Brexit, meaning EU regulators could force it to move into the bloc.MiFID II IMPLEMENTATION: After more than six years in the making and a one-year delay, its finally here: the EUs mammoth revised Markets in Financial Instruments Directive. But are the thousands of institutions covered by the new markets聽rules ready to comply Warnings from big-bank CEOs to the smallest firms suggest they re not. And as of late 2017, the European Commission still hadn t signed off on certain final r Uphi Kerry to Israel: We support you but can t defend right-wing agenda
Italianer not saying goodbye yetCopy LinkCopiedShare via emailShare on XShare on WhatsAppShare on LinkedInMarch 8, 20065:00 pm CETSometimes it hard to say goodbye and it proving so for Alexander Italianer, who is still number two in the private office of Jos茅 Manuel Barroso, president of the Commission.Italianer, as the name doesn ;t quite suggest, is a Dutchman. He was a member of Jacques Santer cabinet, then head of G眉nter Verheugen cabinet and that of Pavel Telic每ka when the latter was briefly the Czech commissioner, with a stint in between in his first Commission home, the departme
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stanley vaso ssion president Bureau of European Policy Advisers. But Italianer will not leave the Barroso cabinet until a successor has been found. This is proving difficult. So nearly three months after the appointment Italianer has yet to say tot ziens.AdvertisementAdvertisementMore from European Voice StaffBelgium owes Europe betterBelgium is the last country to decide on its nominee to the Commission, and it will dictate if Junckers college languishes at eight women, or edges up to nine. Sep 33 mins readReplacement commissioners namedItaly, Luxembourg and Poland this week named interim members of the European Commission to replace thos
