Launch event of the interim report of the Independent Commission on Banking of the UK.

Participation in CEPS meetings is a benefit of membership. Non-members may be admitted for €50, paid in cash at registration. A sandwich lunch (€6) will be served before the event, from 12.30 onwards.

Launch of a CEPS Report. Participation is free of charge for CEPS and ECRI members. Non-members can be admitted for €50, paid in cash at registration.

Participation in CEPS meetings is a benefit of membership. Non-members may be admitted for €50, paid in cash at registration. A sandwich lunch (€6) will be served before the event, from 12.30 onwards.

29th SUERF Colloquium. In cooperation with the Belgian Financial Forum and the Brussels Finance Institute.

The European Parliament adopted this week the ”Podimata report” which, among others, asks for the introduction of a EU-wide tax on financial transactions. According to the report, the amount collected by this tax would raise to almost 200 billion euros per year. While the report as a whole was adopted with a comfortable majority, one provision in particular brought fierce disagreement between the left and the right: whether the EU should go ahead with this tax before its international partners do so.

In the area of financial markets and institutions, CEPS runs one research unit and two independent research institutes:

CEPS-ECRI event. Non CEPS/ECRI members may be admitted for €100 (+VAT). Click here to see the programme. Click here to register.

MEDPRO – Mediterranean Prospects is a consortium of 17 highly reputed institutions from throughout the Mediterranean funded under the EU’s 7th Framework Program and coordinated by the Centre for European Policy Studies based in Brussels. At its core, MEDPRO explores the key challenges the countries in the Southern Mediterranean region (from Morocco to Turkey) will have to cope with in the next decades.

Mirzha de Manuel (1985) is a Research Fellow at the European Capital Markets Institute (ECMI) and the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) since September 2010. His research relates mainly to asset management regulation where he has coordinated a task force with various industry participants and regulators. He has also carried out research on takeover regulation for the European Commission. His publications at CEPS have so far referred to the AIFM Directive and its implementation. He has also been a contributor on these issues for the Financial Times.

The final report 'Rethinking Asset Management: From Financial Stability to Investor Protection and Economic Growth' is available for free download by clicking  here.

Participation is a benefit of membership, non-CEPS members may be admitted for €50, paid in cash at registration. A sandwich lunch (€6) will be served before the meeting, from 12.30 onwards.

The European Capital Markets Institute and the Centre for European Policy Studies wish to engage in the international debate with European regulators on the review of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) run by the European Commission and the Committee of European Securities Regulators. The revision of MiFID represents a new challenge for Europe, which strives to improve efficiency and integration of its capital markets.

The recent institutional re-shuffle has charged new internal market Commissioner Michel Barnier with the task of evaluating costs and benefits of re-designing the regulatory framework currently governing the EU’s retail credit market(s). 

Barnier’s team will have to set its sails for the headwinds if in favor of a policy decision tightening the legislative grip on a sector that moved into the spotlight in the wake of the financial crisis.

Launch event of a CEPS-Assonime Task Force Report on Banking Crisis Resolution Procedures.

Participation in CEPS Lunchtime meetings is a benefit of membership. Non-members may be admitted for €50. A sandwich lunch (€6) is served before the meeting, from 12.30 onwards.