Can EIOPA handle more power?

After the IORP debacle, Jonathan Stapleton asks if more European regs are appropriate

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Sense has been seen at last - and Commissioner Michel Barnier has said he will scrap plans to include new solvency rules in the new version of the Institutions for Occupational Retirement Provision (IORP) Directive.

These rules could have increased UK scheme deficits by anything from £300bn to £500bn so the sudden volte-face is welcome indeed. Instead the new directive will focus solely on transparency and ...

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