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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10120

17 April 2010
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/ecofin council
Michel Barnier to take results of “supervision” package into account when calculating bank capital requirements

Madrid, 16/04/2010 (Agence Europe) - On Friday 16 April, in a backdrop to the informal Ecofin Council meeting, the commissioner for the internal market, Michel Barnier, explained that if they developed an efficient supervision and identification system, “I will take into account the requirements in the future Basle rules”, which set greater demands on banks' own fund requirements. He guaranteed that there would be additional obligations for capital from the banks and recognised that any...

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