Final agreement on the text of a new EU law regulating benchmarks used as indexes to settle financial contracts looks increasingly unlikely to be reached before the end of this year. Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) last week failed to reach consensus with representatives of the EU Council and the European Commission on the definition of critical benchmarks, a regime for proportionality and the extent of the role of EU financial regulator the European Securities and Markets Authority (Esma).
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