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Harmonisation of Insolvency Laws – a possible undertaking?

It is generally agreed that the diversity of national insolvency laws hampers cross-border business, insolvency proceedings, and restructuring efforts. Creditors who give a loan to a financially stricken debtor who...

21 February 2022

Reinhard Bork

News from the EU-UK Battle over Derivatives Clearing

On 16 December 2021, the European Securities Markets Authority (ESMA) presented its first report regarding the assessment of British Central Counterparties (CCPs). ESMA considers two British CCPs, LCH...

18 February 2022

Matthias Lehmann

Basel IV Implementation in the EU: What Does the New Banking Package Mean for Banks?

The European Commission (EC) published the long-awaited ‘Banking Package 2021’ on 27 October 2021. The package is expected to complete the post-financial crisis agenda in the European Union’s...

3 February 2022

Mete Feridun

Muddy Waters’ Answers to ESMA’s Consultation on the European Short Selling Regime

Muddy Waters Capital LLC has recently answered the European Securities and Markets Authority’s (ESMA’s) consultation on the review of certain aspects of the EU Regulation on...

14 December 2021

Carson Block

Regulatory Treatment of Third-Country Branches in the EU: How Will the EC’s Proposed Amendments to CRD VI Affect Banking Groups in Scope?

Branches of third-country banking groups (Third-Country Branches or TCBs) have a very significant footprint in the European Union (EU) with a sizeable amount of assets on their books relative to...

9 December 2021

Mete Feridun

The European Union’s Big Policy Bet Against the Tech Giants

At a roundtable in Brussels in May, NYU law Professor Harry First described the European Union’s proposed Digital Markets Act (DMA)—an ambitious regulatory proposal aimed at large platforms identified...

3 December 2021

Philip Hanspach

Nicolas Petit

Climate Change and Monetary Policy in the Euro Area

Climate change is arguably the greatest challenge of our time and central banks are called to play their part, even if they are not at the forefront of this effort....

2 December 2021

Sarah Jane Hlásková Murphy

Livio Stracca

Maritime Liens in a European Insolvency: Man Overboard?

In recent years, a few illustrious bankruptcies in the maritime industry have revealed the legal issues that arise when maritime law and cross-border insolvency law come into conflict. Most notable...

11 October 2021

Warren de Waegh

Regulating Sustainable Finance in the Dark

In our new article (forthcoming in the European Business & Organization Law Review) we analyze the (revised) EU strategy on sustainable finance announced in two steps in April...

29 September 2021

Dirk A Zetzsche

Linn Anker-Sørensen

The 2020 European Short-Selling ban and the Effects on Market Quality

The Covid-19 pandemic had not only a detrimental effect on most economies but also a considerable negative impact on financial markets. In Europe, stock prices declined between 30% and 45%...

28 September 2021

Wolfgang Bessler

Marco Vendrasco

Harmonisation of Insolvency Laws – a possible undertaking?

News from the EU-UK Battle over Derivatives Clearing

Basel IV Implementation in the EU: What Does the New Banking Package Mean for Banks?

Muddy Waters’ Answers to ESMA’s Consultation on the European Short Selling Regime

Regulatory Treatment of Third-Country Branches in the EU: How Will the EC’s Proposed Amendments to CRD VI Affect Banking Groups in Scope?

The European Union’s Big Policy Bet Against the Tech Giants

Climate Change and Monetary Policy in the Euro Area

Maritime Liens in a European Insolvency: Man Overboard?

Regulating Sustainable Finance in the Dark

The 2020 European Short-Selling ban and the Effects on Market Quality

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