Bringing banks' obligatory disciplines forward. The storms on tax evasion that caused such a commotion last week (see EUROPE 10820 for the initial reactions in the EU) call for a few considerations to be added to what this column had already explicitly stated in EUROPE 10818. It should not be forgotten that four member states - Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark and Finland - have taken a common step to accelerate some aspects of European banking discipline, which for the most part has been...