Brussels, 22/10/2010 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission has opened a public consultation exercise that will run until Friday 19 November on creating in the EU further capital buffers for banks and easing fluctuations in the financial system by introducing countercyclical capital buffers for banks, namely variable capital reserves that banks would have to accumulate during fat years and which could be drawn upon to continue lending and borrowing during lean years. These buffers would...