Foreign banks face new EU rules for more scrutiny
19 banks, including Bank of America and UBS, need to set up holding firms for regulators to check on
London
NINETEEN foreign banks in the European Union will need to set up new holding companies so that regulators can scrutinise them more closely, an EU discussion paper says, mirroring steps taken by the United States.
The European Commission proposed last November that banks headquartered outside the bloc consolidate their EU activities under an "intermediate parent undertaking" or IPU in response to US moves to require foreign banks to set up such companies.
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