Too-big-to-fail banking finds regulatory loophole in Scandinavia
Copenhagen
THE financial watchdogs of Finland and Denmark want the European Union (EU) to step in and address a gap in regulations that the two countries say has the potential to destabilise their markets as they lose control of the region's biggest bank.
At issue is a plan by Nordea Bank AB to turn subsidiaries across the Nordic region into branches of a group that will be headquartered in Stockholm. The manoeuver essentially hands oversight of a global systemi…
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