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	<title>Peter Skinner MEP &#187; Hedge funds</title>
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	<description>Labour Member of the European Parliament, South East</description>
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		<title>EU – US regulatory convergence – work remains</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 14:57:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Buckley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a senior member of both the European Parliament&#8217;s ECON committee and the Delegation for Relations with the United States, I take a very close interest in the issue of convergence of regulation between the EU and US, particularly in the area of financial services.
Since the  high-level commitments made by leaders at the G20 (photo, below), the task of overhauling the financial regulatory architecture in both the EU and US has fallen to lawmakers such as myself, my colleagues in the European Parliament, national governments and our equivalents in Congress.  We ...]]></description>
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		<title>Press release &#8211; &#8220;Alternative funds &#8211; European exceptionalism could undermine G20 commitments, warns British MEP&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:25:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Buckley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[News from Peter Skinner MEP
ISSUED BY PETER SKINNER, LABOUR MEP FOR THE SOUTH EAST REGION
 Peter Skinner MEP , 99 Kent Road, Dartford DA1 2AJ
Tel: 01322 270345 , Mobile: 07976 969912
 
For immediate release                          Wednesday, 26 March 2010
 
Alternative funds &#8211; European exceptionalism could undermine G20 commitments
Moves to go beyond internationally agreed standards for alternative funds could undermine commitments made at the G20 to co-ordinate the global regulatory response to the financial crisis, warns British Labour MEP Peter Skinner.
It also is likely to result in a backlash from the US, harming the interests of ...]]></description>
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		<title>Alternative funds directive enters next stage</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:51:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Buckley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the end of January I submitted 18 amendments to the European Commission&#8217;s proposals for the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive. I am informed that the number of amendments put down by MEPs will be a European Parliament record, with around 1,230 amendments tabled, and the number rising as the secretariat go through the tabled amendments and try to make sense of them.
My amendments focused on four main areas: 1) ensuring that investment trusts, which have operated for over 100 years and do not present systemic risk, are not needlessly ...]]></description>
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