EU countries agree to maintain securities-financing liquidity rules

By Fanny Roux ( April 30, 2025, 15:51 GMT | Insight) -- EU member states decided today that they would not amend a recent proposal from the European Commission to maintain the current rules on liquidity requirements for short-term securities financing transactions. Now that they have a common stance on the matter, they are ready to negotiate a final text with the European Parliament. The latter is to take a position soon, a Parliament official told MLex today.The Council of the EU, representing EU member states, decided not to amend the European Commission’s proposal (see here) to maintain transitional rules that allow some short-term securities financing transactions, or SFTs, to benefit from lower liquidity requirements than those set out in the Basel III standards, the international regulatory framework for banks....

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EU countries agree to maintain securities-financing liquidity rules

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