Jean-Pierre Casey and Karel Lannoo provide a detailed critical analysis of the MiFID Directive’s draft implementing measures.
Jean-Pierre Casey argues in this commentary that continued inter-institutional rivalries must not be allowed to strangle the Single Market.
The European fund management industry has undergone profound changes since the 1985 Directive on Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities (UCITS).
Charles Gottlieb revisits in this market commentary the main factors behind the house price surge in the Eurozone and emphasizes how the situation might pan out for households, which are seem highl
Jean-Pierre Casey and Charles Gottlieb sketch here the competition between the Euro and the US Dollar in the global currency reserve market.
Charles Gottlieb argues in this commentary that the mopping up of excess liquidity induced by monetary tightening should push investors to more carefully discriminate their inves
Charles Gottlieb argues that the emergence of EMU prompted most European countries to modify their legislation governing capital markets, which aimed at laying down a strong basi
Non-equity financial markets used to be "hidden" in Europe, in the sense that relative to their size, they traditionally received less attention from ordinary investors and the m
European corporate bond issuance has picked up significantly in the last month, in anticipation of future interest rate hikes by the European Central Bank.
The EU is well advanced in (re-)shaping the regulatory structure for securities markets.
This paper by Charles Goldfinger, Managing Director of Global Electronic Finance Management, presents the findings and preliminary conclusions of a study carried by GEF between M
