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Mixed reactions to Mifid review CESR’s consultation on the Mifid review has been greeted by a mixture of responses from stakeholders with a resounding lack of support for increasing pre-trade transparency in non equity markets >>READ MORE

Squaring the circle of financial intermediation Czech National Bank vice-governor Mojmír Hampl, who is also a member of the European Union’s economic and financial committee, is concerned by the perfectionists who are out in force on the regulation front >>READ MORE

Book Review - The Fearful Rise of Markets: A Short View of Global Bubbles and Synchronised Meltdowns Published by Financial Times/Prentice Hall in May 2010 In the current debate over the financial... >>READ MORE

Leading commentators call for overhaul of G20 process The chair of the European Committee on the Financial Crisis and the chairman of the Alternative... >>READ MORE

The Hot Seat: Wolf Klinz In the Hot Seat this month is Wolf Klinz MEP and chair of the European special committee on the financial, economic and social crisis. He talks about the need for Europe to speak as one voice on the global stage and what will be in the forthcoming final report of the committee >>READ MORE

The Big Interview: Eddy Wymeersch The Committee of European Securities Regulators chairman talks to GFS about Goldman Sachs, dark pools, AIFMD and regulators always being behind the curve >>READ MORE

Book Review - The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis Published by W. W. Norton & Company... >>READ MORE

Mifid review must remain focused on original objectives Association for Financial Markets in Europe managing director Mark Hart says regulators must resist the urge to use the Mifid review to achieve new objectives >>READ MORE

Book Review - Too Big to Fail: Inside the Battle to Save Wall Street Too Big to Fail is an account of the credit crisis of 2008 written by Andrew Ross Sorkin, a reporter... >>READ MORE

Passing of Healthcare Bill means Financial Reform takes poll position in Obama’s priorities Financial regulatory reform will be back in poll position on the US legislative agenda now that... >>READ MORE

A year in the life of the Financial Stability Board As the Financial Stability Board approaches its first anniversary, secretary general Svein Andresen talks to GFS about what it has achieved and the mountain of work still to be done >>READ MORE

Wrangling over European supervisory framework rumbles on Can the European Commission and the European Parliament agree on proposals for a new supervisory framework? >>READ MORE