One Year Ago In Derivatives Week

Jacques de Larosière, former governor of the Banque de France and chief executive of the International Monetary Fund, was given a mandate to propose a European cross-border supervisory framework, setting out which entity would regulate OTC derivatives. [The report, which was submitted to the European Parliament at the end of February 2009, recommended the implementation of four separate bodies, with the European Securities and Markets Authority overseeing derivatives. Parliament's Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee recently amended the proposals for ESMA and renamed it the European Supervisory Authority (Securities and Markets) (DW, 2/10). Further amendments will be debated at an ECON Committee meeting on Tuesday, with a vote expected to take place towards the end of March.]