Liikanen Report on EU Banking Reform to be published on 2 October 2012

On 28 September 2012, the EU Commission published a press release confirming that the final report of the Liikanen Committee is due to published on 2 October 2012.

The Liikanen Committee is an expert group, formed by the EU Commission in February 2012 and chaired by Erkki Liikanen (former Governor of the Bank of Finland), to investigate the case for structural reform of the EU banking sector in order to strengthen financial stability and improve efficiency and consumer protection.

According to this FT article, it seems that the Liikanen Committee will draw on the proposals of the Vickers Report in the UK and the Volcker Rule in the US and recommend that certain trading activities of banks are ringfenced.  However, it is thought that the committee will not go as far as recommending actual levels of capital that must be applied to ringfenced operations.  Questions also remain as to the maximum permissible volume of trading activities that may take place before a ringfence must be created.

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