Date: 2012
Type: Article
The regulation of cross-border clearing and settlement in the European Union from a legitimacy perspective
European Business Organization Law Review, 2012, 13, 3, 441-474[Global Governance Programme], [European, Transnational and Global Governance]
IGLESIAS-RODRÍGUEZ, Pablo, The regulation of cross-border clearing and settlement in the European Union from a legitimacy perspective, European Business Organization Law Review, 2012, 13, 3, 441-474[Global Governance Programme], [European, Transnational and Global Governance] - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/24174
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Post-trading activities such as clearing and settlement (C&S) constitute a central element in the integration of European financial markets. However, unlike other areas of financial services, C&S has received little legislative and regulatory attention and, as a result, important barriers to the cross-border provision of C&S services persist in the European Union. In order to remove some of these barriers, the financial industry created, under the auspices of the European Commission, the European Code of Conduct for Clearing and Settlement, a self-regulatory instrument aimed at achieving a smoother provision of cross-border C&S services. This paper uses the concepts of input/output legitimacy to analyse the Code's representative nature and effectiveness. It shows that, first, the Code has not received input from all the relevant constituencies potentially affected by C&S, and second, that there are serious threats to future compliance with the Code related to the competitive pressures of European financial markets. The paper also identifies the proposals to regulate C&S facilities at EU level as well as the new European supervision authorities in the financial field as elements which may highly contribute to the input/output legitimacy of cross-border C&S rules in the EU.
Additional information:
Published online: 09 October 2012
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/24174
Full-text via DOI: 10.1017/S1566752912000304
ISSN: 1566-7529; 1741-6205
Series/Number: [Global Governance Programme]; [European, Transnational and Global Governance]
Other topic(s): Transnationalism
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