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19-Apr-2013
Reuters
The United States and the UK aim to include financial services in a proposed free-trade agreement between Washington and the 27-nation European Union, the British ambassador to the United States said on Thursday.
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12-Jul-2013
Public Service Europe
Topics where EU and US politicians and stakeholders’ interests clash — such as public procurement, data protection, financial services and agricultural issues like geographical indicators and sanitary and phytosanitary measures – will prove the most problematic during talks.
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18-Jul-2013
France Amérique
Les Etats-Unis possèdent des règles plus contraignantes dans le secteur financier que l’Europe, ils auraient donc, selon eux, plus à perdre qu’à gagner en harmonisant les systèmes financiers.
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18-Jul-2013
Le Figaro
Au grand dam des Européens, Washington a décidé d’exclure les services financiers de la négociation sur l’accord de libre-échange UE-États-Unis, qui vient de démarrer.
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9-Sep-2013
SOMO
Financial services — both in terms of market access and how they are regulated — are a critical issue in the EU-US FTA (TTIP) talks. Analysis from WEED and SOMO.
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18-Nov-2013
Les Echos
Les Américains seraient disposés à inclure les services financiers dans le TTIP en échange d’une avancée européenne sur l’exception culturelle ou l’agriculture, selon le journal des affaires Les Echos
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19-Jan-2014
SOMO
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership treaty will open markets to foreign services and foreign direct investment in the financial sector. It intends to limit financial sector regulations because they are considered as barriers to trade, reports SOMO.
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28-Jan-2014
DG Trade
The European Commission publishes today a non-paper clarifying its objectives for financial services in the negotiations for a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).
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28-Jan-2014
FT
The EU is seeking to include financial regulation in a sweeping trade pact with the US, arguing that leaving it out of any deal would represent a threat to global financial stability.
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28-Jan-2014
DG Trade
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10-Mar-2014
The Guardian
George Monbiot asks why businesses have got more access to the negociations than citizens and their representative organisations have and sets down some challenges to the architects of TTIP.
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19-Mar-2014
Finance Watch
TTIP risks ‘race to the bottom’ in financial services regulation says Finance Watch, the independent public interest group working to make finance serve society.
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16-Jun-2014
Xinhua
A top European Union (EU) official on Friday continued to push for the inclusion of financial regulation in a free trade agreement with the United States, saying it’s vital to ensure global financial stability.
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17-Jun-2014
EurActiv
Les services financiers ne seront pas abordés lors du prochain cycle de négociation entre l’UE et les États-Unis sur le TTIP, selon un document confidentiel de la Commission.
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30-Jun-2014
AIA
Insurance Europe, the American Insurance Association and the American Council of Life Insurers have issued a statement supporting the inclusion of market access and regulatory cooperation in financial services in TTIP.
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1-Jul-2014
CEO
As leaked by CEO
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2-Jul-2014
IB Times
The European Commission denies that it is using the negotiations over the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership to weaken financial regulation for the benefit of financial institutions.
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2-Jul-2014
Le Monde
Dans le cadre des négociations sur l’accord commercial transatlantique, les Européens s’apprêteraient à faire une proposition demandant moins de règles pour les banques et les marchés financiers et remettant en cause le travail d’encadrement de ce secteur réalisé depuis la crise, révèle un document fuité par Corporate Europe Observatory
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9-Jul-2014
Hedge Funds Review
The Central Bank of Ireland’s markets director believes TTIP is the ideal forum to iron out differences over substituted compliance and establish agreement on monitoring and data collection systems
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19-Nov-2014
ARD
Leaked TTIP negotiating documents show that the EU is trying to protect European banks from strong American financial regulations.
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4-Dec-2014
Public Citizen
US congressional leaders have just sent a letter to the Obama administration warning against TAFTA/TTIP provisions that could restrict Congress’ ability to prevent another financial crisis.
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23-Apr-2015
EurActiv
Insurers from the US and EU are amongst leading backers of a financial services chapter within the Transatlantic Trade & Investment Partnership (TTIP), although the US remains opposed officially.
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31-Aug-2015
Europe Solidaire
Ceux qui contestent mollement l’adhésion prochaine quasi certaine de la France au TTIP feraient bien de réfléchir concrètement à ce que cela signifiera au regard des protections encore apportées par les législations européennes à l’égard des usuriers vautours.
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19-Oct-2015
Sputnik
EU member states are concerned about the “tough negotiation process in all key areas” of the TTIP agreement
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5-Nov-2015
The Guardian
What have governments learned from the financial crisis? I could write a column spelling it out. Or I could do the same job with one word: nothing.
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19-Jan-2016
Sputnik
TTIP perpetuate inequality because of their secrecy and preference for the interests of the wealthy over financial regulations and labor rights.
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16-Feb-2016
Tele Sur
The secretive TTIP could make it easier than ever for big business to sue governments, according to new research.
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10-Mar-2016
EurActiv
Progress was made in the latest round of TTIP talks, but negotiators have a long way to go if the deal is to be signed before Barack Obama leaves office.
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18-Apr-2016
Politico
Fifteen House members emphasized to President Barack Obama that they want to see TTIP cover financial services regulations.
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25-Nov-2016
Madhyam
The exploitation of loopholes has become the favorite play of an organized tax avoidance industry.