22/05/25 (Agence Europe) – On Thursday 22 May, the European Parliament approved by a comfortable majority (436 votes in favour, 149 against, 11 abstentions), without amendment, the proposal for a regulation to make permanent the current liquidity requirements (net stable funding ratio or NSFR) for certain short-term securities financing transactions and unsecured lending transactions (see EUROPE 13611/13). This dossier is being dealt with as a matter of urgency by the European Parliament and the EU Council, which has also not amended the initial proposal (see EUROPE 13630/20). A single session of inter-institutional negotiations should therefore be enough to complete this legislative revision politically, which must be in place before the existing rules expire at the end of June. (MB)