Having proposed a temporary relief of certain banking prudential requirements to facilitate lending (see EUROPE B12476A8), the European Commission is now tackling the capital markets that it wants to further mobilise to help European companies recover from the economic crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic (see EUROPE B12514A5).
To this end, on Friday 24 July, it presented a series of targeted amendments to EU financial regulations, which it hopes will encourage more investment in the...