scholarly journals The Impact of Brexit on Financial Markets—Taking Stock

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michaela Hohlmeier ◽  
Christian Fahrholz
Keyword(s):  
Financial Markets ◽  
Financial Services ◽  
Opportunity Costs ◽  
Market Participants ◽  
Knowing That ◽  
Financial Center ◽  
Final Agreement ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Adequate Agreement ◽  
The Eu

The UK’s withdrawal from the EU will have far-reaching consequences on the European economy. However, the ultimate consequences of Brexit, especially for financial markets, depend on the final agreement, which is still under negotiation. Currently, regulated financial services can be provided across borders under simplified conditions. Without a special agreement, these EU passports cease to apply for business activities between both jurisdictions after Brexit. The EU third-country regimes for non-EEA companies are too few and too unsecure for intensive relations in trade and services. Knowing that London is the leading global financial center, an adequate agreement needs to be found, to ensure affordable and sufficient financial services for business, investors, and consumers. Unfortunately, it appears almost impossible to find solutions for the often contrary interests and various thematic areas in the remaining negotiating period—a no deal scenario becomes more likely. As a result, market participants have started to adapt structures and processes accordingly, by relocating certain functions to the EU27. Nevertheless, it is up to the negotiators to reach an agreement, which achieves the best possible outcome for all affected parties taking into account the opportunity costs of a failure in present Brexit negotiations.

COVID -19 and Indian Financial Markets: A Review

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (02) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Kamaldeep Kaur Sarna
Keyword(s):  
Financial Markets ◽  
Financial Institutions ◽  
Financial Services ◽  
Stock Markets ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Banking Sector ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
The Impact

COVID-19 is aptly stated as a Black Swan event that has stifled the global economy. As coronavirus wreaked havoc, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) contracted globally, unemployment rate soared high, and economic recovery still seems a far-fetched dream. Most importantly, the pandemic has set up turbulence in the global financial markets and resulted in heightened risk elements (market risk, credit risk, bank runs etc.) across the globe. Such uncertainty and volatility has not been witnessed since the Global Financial Crisis of 2008. The spread of COVID-19 has largely eroded investors’ confidence as the stock markets neared lifetimes lows, bad loans spiked and investment values degraded. Due to this, many turned their backs on the risk-reward trade off and carted their money towards traditionally safer investments like gold. While the banking sector remains particularly vulnerable, central banks have provided extensive loan moratoriums and interest waivers. Overall, COVID-19 resulted in a short term negative impact on the financial markets in India, though it is making a way towards V-shaped recovery. In this context, the present paper attempts to identify and evaluate the impact of the pandemic on the financial markets in India. Relying on rich literature and live illustrations, the influence of COVID-19 is studied on the stock markets, banking and financial institutions, private equities, and debt funds. The paper covers several recommendations so as to bring stability in the financial markets. The suggestions include, but are not limited to, methods to regularly monitor results, establishing a robust mechanism for risk management, strategies to reduce Non-Performing Assets, continuous assessment of stress and crisis readiness of the financial institutions etc. The paper also emphasizes on enhancing the role of technology (Artificial Intelligence and Virtual/Augmented Reality) in the financial services sector to optimize the outcomes and set the path towards recovery.

Prospects for a close EU-UK trade deal are not good

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Financial Services ◽  
Transition Period ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Uk Government ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Limited Period ◽  
The Eu

Subject UK-EU trade talks. Significance The United Kingdom will leave the EU on January 31, 2020, but will abide by EU rules as part of the transition period, which runs to December 31, 2020. During this limited period of time, London and Brussels will seek to negotiate a permanent trading relationship. While the transition deadline can be extended, the UK government has committed not to seek an extension. Impacts The impact of no trade deal or a 'thin' one may force the UK government to increase taxes in order to meet spending pledges. UK financial services will rely on an equivalence deal with the EU; London hopes to agree this by mid-2020. The EU’s future trade policy will focus on having stronger sanction powers as well as legal ones for those that unfairly undercut EU firms.

ESMA issues Brexit opinions to EU regulators: a warning shot not only to the UK but also to the EU27

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 50-52
Author(s):  
William Yonge ◽  
Simon Currie
Keyword(s):  
Financial Services ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Regulatory Response ◽  
Market Participants ◽  
Financial Firms ◽  
Practical Guidance ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
The Eu

Purpose To summarize and analyse four opinions issued in May and July 2017 by the European Securities and Markets Authority (“ESMA”) concerning regulatory and supervisory arbitrage risks that arise as a result of increased requests from financial market participants to relocate activities and functions in the EU27 following the UK’s decision to withdraw from the EU, and the expected regulatory response to those risks. Design/methodology/approach Discusses the possible relocation of financial firms, activities and functions following the UK’s decision to withdraw from EU; the resulting cross-sectoral regulatory and supervisory arbitrage risks that ESMA foresees; nine principles that ESMA enumerates to guide its regulatory response to those risks; some common themes that emerge from ESMA’s July Opinions; and the implications for UK firms and trading venues seeking to establish a presence in the EU 27. Findings ESMA foresees regulatory and arbitrage risks in Brexit and a potential “race to the bottom” as certain national regulators jostle for and grab UK market share. Practical implications UK firms and trading venues seeking to establish a presence in the EU27 from which to operate will need to give detailed consideration and focus to the resources and operational substance which will need to be located in the jurisdiction in which that presence is established. Originality/value Practical guidance from experienced financial services, securities and fund management lawyers.

scholarly journals Towards Single Market in Financial Services: Highlights of the EU and the EAEU Financial Markets Regulation

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-137
Author(s):  
Rustam Kasyanov ◽  
Anzhelika Kriger
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Financial Markets ◽  
Financial Services ◽  
Market Regulation ◽  
The European Union ◽  
European Union Law ◽  
Member States ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
The Eu ◽  
Financial Markets Regulation

The article covers key formats of interstate cooperation in the post-Soviet space. The authors conclude that the Eurasian Economic Union is the major integration project bringing together Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Russia. This research addresses various legal issues related to founding of the EAEU single financial services market with provisions and annexes of the EAEU Treaty studied. The EAEU meets challenges and creates legal and institutional framework for single financial services market within a relatively short timeframe. By 2025 both Supranational Eurasian financial regulator should be established and EAEU legislation on financial services should be harmonized. These tasks require international and national regulation experience. Therefore through the use of comparative analysis some advantages of the European Union law in the field of financial services market regulation are pointed out alongside with particular national legislation aspects of the EAEU member states in the similar or relative fields. Comparative analysis provides for determination of modern approaches to financial services market regulation in the EAEU and its member states, and allows to emphasize advantages and disadvantages of such regulation. Comparative analysis is applied to specifically investigate three subject areas of high relevance for global financial community: institutional forms of trade in financial instruments; organized trade in financial derivatives; organization of algorithmic and high-frequency algorithmic trading. Conclusion drawn is that the EU experience in the matters of financial markets regulation is of particular interest for the EAEU and its member states.

London

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Roberts
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Financial Services ◽  
Financial Regulation ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Services Sector ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Global Financial Crisis ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Eu

At the onset of the Global Financial Crisis in 2007 London was one of the two foremost global financial centres, along with New York. London experienced a 12 per cent fall in wholesale financial services jobs in 2008–9, but a recovery got underway in 2010 and London’s wholesale financial services sector staged a wavering advance. But now there were new challenges, in particular the avalanche of financial regulation coming from the UK, the EU, the US and the G20. Fintech engendered new uncertainties. The impact of Brexit was uncertain, but mostly expected to be negative, at least in the short-term. Furthermore, there was growing competition from Asian and other financial centres. Nevertheless, London remained pre-eminent as one of the two largest global concentrations of wholesale financial services activity and at the top of the Global Financial Centres Index.

The EU Experience as a Model for the Development of a Single Financial Market Regulation in the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU)

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. 592-621 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rustam A. Kasyanov
Keyword(s):  
Financial Markets ◽  
Financial Market ◽  
Financial Services ◽  
Market Regulation ◽  
Member States ◽  
Financial Market Regulation ◽  
Eurasian Economic Union ◽  
Economic Union ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Eu

Five countries became members of the Eurasian Economic Union – an international organization of regional economic integration. The Republic of Kazakhstan, the Russian Federation, and the Republic of Belarus signed the international Treaty in the city of Astana, Kazakhstan on May 29, 2014. The Republic of Armenia and the Kyrgyz Republic acceded to the Treaty later. Harmonized regulation of financial markets should be one of the initial areas of cooperation, with the aims of creating a single financial services market within the EAEU and ensuring non-discriminatory access to the national financial markets of each of the member states. The EAEU member states have already entered into the initial stage of developing the Eurasian common market in financial services. A considerable part of the work should be carried out by a supranational financial market regulation body, which is to be established by 2025 according to the EAEU Treaty. Such financial integration in the EAEU has only been in progress for a limited time period and many of the key steps are yet to be done. The existing national-markets development level is highly non-homogeneous and is in need of further development. In such circumstances, a relevant question related to the study of foreign experience arises. European Union started to form its single financial services market in 1973, and since then it has gained certain experience in financial markets integration. This research paper is dedicated to the issue of necessity and possibility of using the EU experience in the course of the EAEU Single market development. The issue will be addressed in terms of political, legal, academic, and practical aspects. The article is of a general, theoretical legal character, which is why emphasis will be placed on legal and doctrinal questions. Special attention will be paid to an analysis of the Eurasian Economic Union Treaty and its Protocols. The work will be based on the academic research and opinions of Russian and foreign authors.

The Variable Nature of Ownership of Emission Units in the Intersection of Climate Law, Property Law, and the Regulation of Financial Markets

Climate Law ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-75
Author(s):  
Emilie Yliheljo
Keyword(s):  
Financial Market ◽  
Market Regulation ◽  
Carbon Markets ◽  
Financial Market Regulation ◽  
Market Participants ◽  
Proactive Management ◽  
Variable Nature ◽  
Legal Position ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Eu

Abstract The article analyses the impact of the origins of emission units in transnational climate policy on market participants in the EU ets and the extension of financial-market regulation to the European carbon market. To assess the consequences of the public-private nature of emission units, a broad view of ownership is taken. Ownership is understood as the legal position of the holder of emission units, being an aggregate of elements of private law but also climate law and financial-market regulation. As a consequence, a picture emerges of a legal position variable in the personal, temporal, and spatial dimensions, following policy-design choices and the evolution of regulation of carbon markets. The ownership of emission units reflects the ongoing balancing of the different public-policy goals of the EU ets and differs from economic theories laying the foundations of emission trading. Due to the necessity for a proactive management of the scheme, regulatory intervention and risk have become inherent features of the ownership of the units, and the impact of changes will vary across different market participants.

The City of London as an International Commercial and Financial Center since 1900

2012 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 538-587 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Mollan ◽  
Ranald Michie
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Financial Markets ◽  
Financial Development ◽  
Financial Services ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Financial Center ◽  
National Economies ◽  
City Of London ◽  
The City

The relative importance of financial services in national economies varied over the course of the twentieth century. Rajan and Zingales note that “by most measures, countries were more financially developed in 1913 than in 1980 and only recently have they surpassed their 1913 levels” and that “indicators of financial development fell in all countries after 1929, reaching their nadir around 1980. Since then has been a revival of financial markets.” This revival of financial markets over the last thirty years has led to the study of “financialization” that is variously defined with differing uses, but here is understood as “the growing importance of financial markets as a source of profits in the economy.”

scholarly journals Development of the Financial Markets in Turkey in Comparison with the EU Countries

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sudi Apak ◽  
Mehmet Fatih Bayramoğlu
Keyword(s):  
Financial Markets ◽  
Capital Markets ◽  
Banking Sector ◽  
Financial Sector ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Eu Countries ◽  
Financial Center ◽  
The Eu

The Turkish financial sector, especially the Turkish banking sector, demonstrates a growth tendency in recent years. Although this growth is observed to be steady, it has not reached a sufficient volume and the sources of growth are not healthy. In this study, the dimensions of the said growth in the Turkish financial sector are analyzed in comparison with the EU member countries, which are also the members of OECD, with respect to the competitiveness features of the countries and financial centers, banking sectors of the countries and the capital markets of the countries. The study presents an evaluation of the current situation with a special focus on Istanbul - a city planned to be a global financial center.

Part V New Financial Technology in Financial Markets and Infrastructure, 15 Impact on Regulation of Financial Markets

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Treleaven Philip ◽  
Sfeir-Tait Sally
Keyword(s):  
Financial Markets ◽  
Financial Services ◽  
Stock Markets ◽  
Financial Stability ◽  
New Economy ◽  
Financial Services Regulation ◽  
Regulation Of Financial Markets ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Financial Technology

This chapter considers the impact of fintech and regtech from a macro perspective. It demonstrates the depth of the changes and importance to consider in all the elements that are converging to create a new reality and a new economy. It also adopts the meaning of the term “fintech” as published by the Bank of International Settlements and the Financial Stability Board, which means “technology—enabled innovation in financial services”. This chapter describes the impact of fintech on financial services regulation. It provides a macro analysis on fintech solutions that are tested or implemented in financial services as they are directly applicable to stock markets and exchanges.

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