Today's event "Basel III implementation in the EU: the final negotiations", was the third in a series of high-level roundtables organised by the CEPS Financial Institutions Unit on the future of financial regulation in Europe.
At this occasion, Mr Guider, EACB General Manager was kindly invited to be a panellist in the Session 2 entitled: " Impact on Industry, economy and society."
In his speech, Mr. Guider expressed the co-operative banks concerns about the CRD IV and CRR legislative measures. He aslo underlined the new trends in terms of decison making process as well as the new stakeholders involvement in the design of new regulations. Finally, he stressed on the necessity to integrate more flexibility and proportionality in the EU legislation to avoid disporportionate compliance costs for small and medium banks such as co-operative banks.
For the full programme of this event, please click HERE.