Showing posts with label risky financial products. Show all posts
Showing posts with label risky financial products. Show all posts
Tuesday, 28 August 2018

ESMA imposes first temporary bans on investment products

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In June 2018 the European Securities and Markets Authrity (ESMA) for the first time formally adopted new, temporary rules on the provision ...
Monday, 14 December 2015

Foreign currency exchange transactions connected to foreign currency denominated loans are not investments

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Judgment of the CJEU in  C-312/14 Banif Plus Bank Zrt. v Márton Lantos and Mártonné Lantos  delivered on 3 December 2015  The Hungarian...
Sunday, 20 September 2015

A different look at foreign currency loans? AG Jääskinen's Opinion in C-312/14 Banif Plus Bank Zrt v Márton Lantos and Mártonné Lantos

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Opinion of Advocate General Jääskinen delivered on 17 September 2015 The Hungarian District Court of Ráckeve (Ráckevei Járásbíróság)...
Wednesday, 27 November 2013

Scope of required disclosure when buying securities - AG Sharpston in Timmel (C-359/12)

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26 November 2013: AG Sharpston opinion in case Timmel ( C-359/12 ) It's a cliche but financial services are often complex and consu...
Tuesday, 19 November 2013

Assuring informed choice in life assurance contracts - EFTA court (E-11/12)

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On 13 June this year the EFTA court gave a judgment in the case Koch, Hummel and Müller v. Swiss Life ( E-11/12 ) which concerned the duty...
Tuesday, 2 July 2013

Are KIDs going to be relevant when they are finally adopted?

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The summer holiday season has not yet started for the EU institutions (even if it might have begun for some of the authors of this blog). L...
Wednesday, 3 October 2012

Objectivity of financial advice to consumers still not a given

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Last week BEUC issued a press release in which it expressed its concerns about the European Parliament's plans to update the MiFID (...
Wednesday, 4 July 2012

Investing consumers should be treated like/with (cross out inapplicable word) KIDs

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Yesterday the European Commission presented a new legislative package that is supposed to restore consumers' faith in the financial s...
Sunday, 23 October 2011

Shortcomings of a financial market to be healed by a short selling regulation

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In May this year we reported that a draft Regulation on short selling and credit default swaps ( Short selling regulation? ) is being prepa...
Saturday, 28 May 2011

Short selling regulation?

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While the European Parliament works on funny videos that declare its resolution to fight against the financial crisis (see earlier post ), t...
Monday, 9 May 2011

Inside Job

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I've seen yesterday the documentary " Inside Job " that has won an Oscar for the best documentary of 2010. It is a documentar...
Monday, 6 September 2010

New measures aiming at enhance financial consumer protection in Europe through prudential regulation

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EU negotiators reached agreement on a package of measures to beef up supervision of the bloc's banks, giving new EU watchdogs a mandate...