Council of the EU Adopts Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive - On May 6, the Council of the EU adopted at first reading the text of the Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive (BRRD). The BRRD seeks to harmonize...more
LIBOR, the world’s most popular floating-rate index number, has undoubtedly lost reliability in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. In 2008, news sources began to cast doubt on “the world’s most reliable number,” and...more