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

The EU internal market commissioner tells Tim Geithner that new rules for hedge funds and private equity will not shut foreign funds out of EU financial markets

European plans to regulate hedge funds could start a 'flood' of ill-conceived financial regulation from Brussels, Boris Johnson will warn

I was watching Will Hutton's Dispatches programme on bank failures last night, and it really emphasised the point that it is impossible to generalise about hedge funds, much as many of us lefties like to. Bear Stearns was floored by its hedge funds' exposure to CDOs, as part of a big punt on subprime. Yet at the same time (and subsequently) there were hedge funds profiting from a wholly ...

European diplomats worked yesterday (13 October) to break a deadlock in talks aimed at tightening controls on hedge funds in the EU, with officials saying they were considering delaying or granting opt-out clauses on the most controversial parts of the law.

Leading contender for most deliciously ironic event of the credit crash was the news this week  that Porsche had cost hedge funds up to $25bn through some complex financial mechanism which I can’t quite get my head around, but which seems to have involved them lending VW shares to the funds to short sell without

European Union countries agreed on Tuesday to impose new regulations on private equity and hedge funds, paving the way for a wide range of controls in the opaque sector.

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.

The European Commission's draft directive on hedge funds and private equity funds can and will be improved, according to the UK's financial services minister