EU finance ministers were due to meet today to discuss the EU’s proposed AIFM Directive on hedge fund and private equity managers. The FT reported this morning that the Spanish EU Presidency had said it was optimistic that a deal would be reached. However, on his WSJ blog, Stephen Fidler reports that Spanish Finance Minister Elena Salgado has pulled the item from the agenda of today’s ...

Talks in Brussels to strike an agreement on regulating hedge funds and private equity came to an abrupt end this morning (16 March) as the Spanish EU Presidency, tasked with brokering a deal, postponed talks because no agreement was in sight.

Regulation of hedge fund and private equity fund managers in Europe is poised to go ahead after European Union finance ministers reached agreement on new rules for the alternative investment fund sector

New rules for hedge funds and private equity are expected to move a step closer when EU finance ministers push for tough regulation at a meeting in Brussels

European laws to regulate hedge funds and private equity funds for the first time should be subject to a full impact assessment, a UK treasury minister says

EU finance ministers reach broad agreement on the need to impose tighter regulations on hedge funds and private equity firms.

The Finance Minister of Sweden, which took the helm of the EU yesterday (1 July), said hedge funds and private equity firms needed to be regulated, but warned against "overzealous" initiatives as they should not be seen as the primary cause of the global financial crisis.

After the European Parliament approved tighter controls on hedge funds and private equity firms yesterday (17 May), the EU's finance ministers today gave their blessing to a very different proposal, leaving the European Commission with the job of forging a "dynamic compromise" by June.

After the European Parliament approved tighter controls on hedge funds and private equity firms yesterday (17 May), the ball now passes to the court of the EU's finance ministers, who find themselves in a very different position. Wedged between the two, the European Commission says it wants a "dynamic compromise" by June.

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