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A discussion on the implementation of Directive 2011/89/EU, which provides for supplementary supervision of financial entities in a financial conglomerate.

The Dutch Central Bank (DNB) and the Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets (the AFM) have published a paper describing the next steps in facilitating an adequate supervisory approach...

DNB has announced the issues that merit its special attention this year.

Directors of financial institutions pay insufficient attention to the effect of their actions on others and on group dynamics, according to DNB's report Leading By Example.

The Enterprise Chamber of the Amsterdam Court of Appeal recently ruled on the compensation offered by the Dutch Minister of Finance in relation to the expropriation by the Dutch State of shares and subordinated debt issued by the SNS Reaal Group.

In our Europe Update of June 2012, we reported that the European Commission set up a High-Level Expert Group (HLEG) on banking reform.

One hardly needs the gift of prophecy to predict that there will be more amendments of financial markets laws in 2017.

ESMA has published its 20th version of Q&As on prospectuses.

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For example, institutions will now be explicitly required to provide as many different training courses as is required for each specific function in an organization.

The SEC announced its first deferred prosecution agreement with an individual.

The submission of a bill to the Dutch parliament on the remuneration rules for financial undertakings has moved one step closer to fixing a 20% cap on bonuses.

Internal discussions on whether members of the AFM’s supervisory board can hold positions in companies or financial institutions prompted the Minister of Finance to conduct an integrity audit.

The Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets has now published the notification form which non-EEA fund managers must use if they wish to rely on the Dutch private placement regime.

The Netherlands has not yet submitted its national recovery plan to the European Commission.

The Dutch State has nationalized the SNS Reaal bank and insurance group.

The European Council and the European Parliament reached agreement on a proposal for new bank capital standards, implementing the Basel 3 agreement.

The European Council adopted a set of legislation on 13 May 2014 regulating the trade in financial instruments and the investment services sector.