Is the United States Reneging on International Financial Standards?
Nicolas Véron | 20 April 2020
Monetary,
Blog | Tags:
Covid-19,
Debt,
Federal Reserve,
Financial Regulation The financial shock surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic has prompted the Federal Reserve to temporarily loosen an important capital-to-asset ratio requirement for US banks. In so doing, it is walking away from a decade-long commitment to global financial reforms forged in the wake of the global
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A European Anti–Money Laundering Supervisor: From Vision to Legislation
Nicolas Véron and
Joshua Kirschenbaum | 10 February 2020
Monetary,
Blog | Tags:
AML,
Financial Supervision,
Governing Finance The European Union is moving toward implementing a policy to strengthen anti–money laundering (AML) supervision across its Single Market, namely enforcing requirements on banks and other firms to ensure they do not facilitate transactions involving proceeds from illegal activities. The European Commission, in charge of
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