Diplomats in Brussels will try to agree a compromise on controversial proposals to regulate the hedge fund and private equity industries on a pan-European basis for the first time

Tim Geithner, US Treasury secretary, has delivered a blunt warning to the European Commission that its plans to regulate the hedge fund and private equity industries could cause a transatlantic rift by discriminating against US groups

EU internal market commissioner Michel Barnier wound up a 24-hour peace mission to London on Tuesday with a pledge to work further on European Union plans to impose regulations on hedge funds and private equity

He’ll have to because nobody else will. As Robert Peston says ‘Poor RBS, poor Britain’ – today’s figures are catastrophic. Peston’s been digging and the news gets worse: ‘But perhaps the most chilling numbers are these: we as taxpayers put in £25.5bn of new equity into this bank last autumn, the second instalment of the £45.5bn we have invested i...

Lawmakers say they are closer to reaching a compromise deal on controversial hedge fund and private equity fund legislation

Rewind almost three years and the trade union movement was embroiled in a bitter media spat with the private equity industry. We were asked to produce the evidence that private equity firms increased risk for the companies they acquired. Well, the evidence is now here.

Tension between regulators and private equity over planned EU regulation erupted on Thursday, as the Financial Services Authority said the "arrogance" of the buy-out industry had put it in the spotlight

Britain must withhold its consent to European Union rules regulating the hedge fund and private equity industries, a Lords committee has concluded

From David Colquhoun's excellent dcscience.net: "VENTURE CAPITALISM – AN ICELANDIC CORPORATION You have two cows. You sell three of them to your publicly listed company, using letters of credit opened by your brother-in-law at the bank, then execute a debt/equity swap with an associated general offer so that you get all four cows back, with a tax exemption for five cows. The milk rights...

Proposals drafted by Spanish diplomats risk introducing protectionism to European Union legislation, say some hedge funds and private equity groups