340 results about this entity
Period: 16 Nov 2001 - 11 Jul 2024
News
The European Central Bank's plans to establish an integrated securities settlement system in the euro zone will be examined by the region's competition watchdog.
01 March 2007
The International Capital Market Association (ICMA) is gearing up to launch two new pilot services that will see post-trade information and data on large liquid bond dealings published online.
21 February 2007
The European Commission will look again at interchange fees charged by Visa next year, after an 'antitrust exemption' agreement for the card company runs out at the end of December.
20 February 2007
The European Commission is launching an interactive Web site to provide financial services firms, investors and trade associations with information on implementing the recently finalised Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID).
14 February 2007
MasterCard has warned the European Commission that further interference in the setting of interchange fees runs the risk of derailing the single euro payments area (Sepa) timetable.
01 February 2007
A pan-European consortium of banks, companies, universities and user groups is teaming up to develop an open architecture for the deployment of near field communication (NFC) technology on mobile phones.
31 January 2007
The European Commission is calling for feedback on how best to safeguard the region's electronic communication networks against disruption from malicious attacks and natural hazards.
19 January 2007
The introduction of European Union (EU) rules governing cross-border euro payments in 2001 has led to a dramatic fall in costs for consumers and prompted banks to invest in EU-wide payments intfrastructure, according to a European Commission study.
12 January 2007
German exchange Deutsche Börse says it has implemented the first step of the EC-endorsed code of conduct - which aims to reduce the costs of cross-border trading - by publishing prices for equities trading, clearing and settlement online.
14 December 2006
Customers will not gain the full benefits of competition in a Single Euro Payments Area (Sepa) unless banks make it easier to switch accounts between institutions, says a group of European regulators which are pushing for a greater say in the preparations for the new payments framework.
01 December 2006
The European Central Bank has laid down a new set of objectives for payment card schemes to achieve in order to become Sepa-compliant, amid concerns that current provisions would lead to higher prices and a deterioration in service quality.
20 November 2006
The European Commission is preparing sweeping changes to the rules governing clearing and settlement in Europe in an effort to remove competitive distortions and stimulate the introduction of transparent pricing.
10 July 2006
EU internal market commissioner Charlie McCreevy has called for financial services firms to step up preparations for the implementation of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) after the European Securities Committee approved the legislation.
27 June 2006
The European Commission is to investigate the imposition of MiFID-style transparency rules for fixed income and derivatives markets.
12 June 2006
The European Commission has criticised the lack of competition in EU securities clearing and settlement in a report that compares the cost of trading across seven different bourses.
25 May 2006
The European Commission has threatened the payment card industry with antitrust action amid concerns that banks and national card networks conspire to thwart competition by raising barriers to new entrants.
12 April 2006
The EU's draft proposal for standardising cross-border payment transfers has received a cautious response from industry bodies, with the European Savings Banks Group stating the new framework "needs improvement".
02 December 2005
The European Commission is proposing that banks register the name, address and account numbers of anybody transferring funds in the European Union, in an attempt to cut off funding sources for terrorists and other criminals.
26 July 2005
The European Commission is to revisit the E-Money Directive to address recent developments in mobile telephony and Internet payment schemes.
15 July 2005
The European Parliament has passed controversial Commission proposals for a new law limiting bank charges for cross-border low value payment transfers.
16 November 2001
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