Brussels, 22/03/2012 (Agence Europe) - The Greens/EFA Group at the European Parliament is recommending a different approach to bank capital requirements be taken to match the type of bank in question. It is calling for a binding liquidity ratio and has lodged amendments to the current updating of the CRD IV Directive to this effect.
On Thursday 22 March, Belgium's Philippe Lambert said that the challenge at present was to penalise action by banks that was a danger to the financial system...