With the benchmark rate being phased out, the BoE and FCA are calling on Libor users to take action and are even threatening to use supervisory tools to make it happen.

Spain's financial watchdog CNMV will consult until next 14 February on amendments to the code of good governance for Spanish listed firms implemented in 2015.

The proposed financial transactions tax (FTT) sponsored by Olaf Scholz, Germany’s finance minister, has unleased a wave of protests in the country.

The European financial markets association's latest whitepaper draws recommendations to enhance the functioning of the EU equivalence framework with third countries for financial services.

China’s foreign exchange regulator announced measures to facilitate more forex hedging channels for foreign investors in the interbank bond market.

European securities regulator ESMA said that liquidity risk is an issue in real estate and funds of funds sector.

On 10 January, the Slovenian central bank and financial market authority has filed a request to the constitutional court of the Republic of Slovenia asking for a review of the law passed last 22 October.

The Estonian financial supervision authority has conducted an audit throughout last year on practices implemented by local financial institutions for the selection of executive managers.

UK compensation body Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) will protect only 159 – barely 2% – of the 11,600 bondholders of the defunct London Capital and Finance (LCF).