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EU business regulation

  • Thursday, 2 January, 2025
    The FT View
    Europe needs to tackle its red tape problem

    Complex overlapping rules and burdensome reporting requirements are strangling EU growth

    White-suited technicians on a production line for semiconductor wafers at a plant in Dresden
  • Monday, 30 December, 2024
    Henry Foy
    Year in a word: Competitiveness

    Mario Draghi’s report urging the EU to step up its game uses a buzzword on every Eurocrat’s lips

    Montage image of tiles spelling ‘competitiveness’ and two EU flags
  • Friday, 27 December, 2024
    Cryptocurrencies
    Trump’s crypto embrace overshadows new EU digital assets rules

    US approach to digital currencies will draw business from Europe, industry executives say

    Donald Trump spreads his hands during a speech
  • Sunday, 22 December, 2024
    Qatar will ‘stop’ EU gas sales if fined under due diligence law

    Energy minister warns Doha ‘not bluffing’ over hefty penalties in corporate sustainability directive

    Qatar energy minister Saad al-Kaabi
  • Friday, 20 December, 2024
    The Big Read
    Europe wrapped itself in a web of new rules. Can it reverse course?

    With Donald Trump promising more deregulation in the US and businesses upset about red tape, the EU is now searching for balance

  • Thursday, 19 December, 2024
    UK financial regulation
    UK’s FCA to simplify disclosure rules for investment products

    Watchdog says it will scrap regime inherited from EU that can ‘confuse or overwhelm’ investors

    The FCA head office in London
  • Wednesday, 18 December, 2024
    EU financial regulation
    EU watchdogs call for disaster-relief fund in wake of Valencia floods

    Climate change increasing frequency of natural disasters, leaving more of their multibillion-euro costs uninsured, says report

    A woman works to clean mud among debris in a street of Paiporta, south of Valencia
  • Wednesday, 11 December, 2024
    UK insurance industry
    BoE plans tougher liquidity rules for insurers following ‘critical gaps’

    Mini-budget and pandemic showed need for more frequent reporting, regulator says

    The Bank of England in the City of London
  • Thursday, 5 December, 2024
    Insurance
    Regulators sign off on new global rules for insurers

    Rules will not require insurance companies to set aside more capital but could raise their reporting costs

    Table Mountain looms above Cape Town in South Africa
  • Wednesday, 4 December, 2024
    City’s new bonus rules will be better for bankers than banks

    Gifts for the risk takers and rainmakers

  • Tuesday, 3 December, 2024
    Exchange traded funds
    BlackRock launches active short-term money market ETF

    Manager claims to be first to offer strategy in a money market fund-regulated actively managed ETF in Europe

    The bull and bear statue outside Frankfurt Stock Exchange
  • Monday, 2 December, 2024
    Business InsightPatrick Jenkins
    How to end Europe’s backwater investment status

    Lagarde envisages a new investment structure to guarantee common standards and low costs

    Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank, during an interview by Roula Khalaf of the Financial Times in Frankfurt, Germany
  • Friday, 29 November, 2024
    Wise
    Wise rebuked by European watchdog over money laundering controls

    Regulatory review in 2022 found fintech lacked proof of address for hundreds of thousands of customers

    Montage of Wise app on a mobile phone in foreground, and Wise logo and close-up of sterling note in background
  • Thursday, 28 November, 2024
    European Commission
    EU fines Pierre Cardin and licensee for breaking competition rules

    Companies curbed cross-border sales of branded clothing, says European Commission

    A model showcases a vibrant creation by Pierre Cardin, featuring a bold pink and turquoise ensemble. She wears oversized sunglasses and holds a smartphone while walking the runway
  • Thursday, 28 November, 2024
    Europe Express
    Why von der Leyen’s deregulation drive has Brussels confused Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: Ireland goes to the polls

    European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen
  • Tuesday, 26 November, 2024
    EU energy
    Brussels raises stink over Dutch manure protectionism

    Netherlands challenged over plan to restrict use of biogas not made from domestic dung

    3 Cows black and white group together in a field
  • Tuesday, 19 November, 2024
    Bank stress tests
    Climate action to have ‘limited impact’ on financial system, EU finds

    Regulators complete first stress test to estimate how climate fight will affect banks, insurers and pension funds

    Climate activists holding signs at the COP29 summit in Baku
  • Monday, 18 November, 2024
    EU financial regulation
    ECB split over report showing big EU banks’ capital requirements lower than US rivals

    Officials say US rules would increase minimum capital levels by double-digit percentage for biggest EU banks

    High-rise buildings in the central financial and business district in Frankfurt, Germany
  • Monday, 18 November, 2024
    Plastic pollution
    European plastics makers shut plants as production declines sharply

    Industry is latest manufacturing sector on the continent to shrink despite global growth

    A technician works at the Matrica chemistry complex in Porto Torres, Sardinia
  • Thursday, 14 November, 2024
    EU tech regulation
    Meta fined nearly €800mn for breaking EU law over classified ads practices

    Facebook is undermining rivals by ‘tying’ its free Marketplace services with the social network, Brussels says

    Meta logo
  • Friday, 8 November, 2024
    Euronext NV
    Euronext plans US-style prospectus to boost corporate fundraisings

    European exchanges operator aims to harmonise listing information across seven countries

    Euronext chief executive Stéphane Boujnah
  • Wednesday, 30 October, 2024
    Retail & Consumer industry
    Hundreds of cosmetic goods contain toxic substances, says EU agency

    Many retail goods contained ‘forever chemicals’ that are harmful to humans and the environment, according to report

    Clockwise from top left, eyeliner made by LH Cosmetics; hair product by L’Anza and lipliner by Italian beauty brand Diego Dalla Palma
  • Friday, 25 October, 2024
    US financial regulation
    Top US regulator warns of potential crisis if final bank guardrails fall away

    Finance industry steps up effort to further undermine Basel III endgame after winning major concessions on terms

    Michael Hsu
  • Monday, 21 October, 2024
    Pharmaceuticals sector
    Europe falls behind China in playing host to clinical drug trials

    Pharmaceutical companies turn to jurisdictions with simpler regulatory regimes

    Gloved hands carry out lab tests
  • Monday, 21 October, 2024
    European Securities & Markets Authority
    Europe markets watchdog bids to become EU’s version of SEC

    Verena Ross calls for more centralised powers in response to appetite for stronger capital markets and investment in bloc

    Verena Ross, chair of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), is pictured at the FinSum fintech summit in Tokyo, Japan. She is wearing a white blazer and glasses, smiling slightly against a dark background.
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