Europe's leading trading firms respond to political agreement on a new prudential regime for investment firms

Piebe Teeboom, Secretary-General of FIA EPTA, the association representing the leading principal trading firms in Europe, welcomed yesterday’s political agreement between the European Parliament and the Council on the Investment Firm Review (IFR/IFD) -- but stressed the importance of implementing the new regime in a proportionate way for Europe’s capital markets to be able to further develop and grow.