Brussels, 15/07/2015 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission is to hold a consultation of the stakeholders, to run until 7 October, on the impact of the rules to increase the own-funds requirements on loans to small businesses and the financing of infrastructure projects.
The regulation (CRR) and the directive (CRD IV) on capital requirements have succeeded in returning resilience, stability and confidence to the European banking sector, but “it is right to ask whether the rules have unintended consequences”, the Commissioner for Financial Services, Jonathan Hill, stated in a press release on Wednesday 15 July.
The questions the consultation is seeking to answer include: - to what extent have CRR and CRD IV affected the level of capital held by banks? -Are all the new requirements under all circumstances proportionate to the risks they were meant to address? - What impact are the rules having on lending to smaller businesses, and to infrastructure projects? - Could some of the rules be simplified or differentiated by risk or size, without compromising on their objectives?
The Commission will then publish a follow-up report on the consultation and will hold a public hearing later this year, to prepare for its final report in 2016.
See: http://ec.europa.eu/finance/consultations/2015/long-term-finance/index_en.htm (Mathieu Bion)