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8 Amendments of Krišjānis KARIŅŠ related to 2013/2021(INI)

Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J a (new)
Ja. whereas enhanced competition in the European banking industry is highly desirable; whereas the aggregated amount of legislative and regulatory requirements on banks, although indeed warranted for many reasons, risk to create barriers to entry and, therefore, facilitate the cementation of the current banking groups' dominant positions;
2013/04/18
Committee: ECON
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J a (new)
Ja. whereas the EU needs growth and jobs as businesses need capital and credit; EU banking sector plays an important role to initiate growth, therefore any reforms for the EU banking sector that would impede growth should be avoided;
2013/04/18
Committee: ECON
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the HLEG's analysis and recommendations on banking reform and considers them a sound basis for initiating reforms. However, considers that legislative initiatives currently processed or recently adopted, such as the Single supervisory mechanism, the capital and prudential requirements regulation and directive, the Bank recovery and resolution directive, the Deposit guarantee scheme, MiFID and MiFIR, the Market abuse regulation and directive, the European markets infrastructure regulation, the Alternative investment fund managers' directive, the Financial transaction tax, the Insurance mediation directive, the Insurance guarantee schemes, the Investor compensation schemes, Omnibus II, Solvecny II, UCITS II, the Credit rating agencies legislation and Short-selling legislation, should be implemented and allowed to come into operation and that the outcome thereof should be taken as a basis for the assessment of what might be needed in the future;
2013/04/18
Committee: ECON
Amendment 182 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Remembers that one of the main reasons why the situation in Cyprus has been so difficult to deal with is the fact that the banking system was more or less solely dependent on retail deposits for its funding. Highlights that had there been a larger share of unsecured debt-holders in the funding mix of Cypriot banks, the extraordinarily unfortunate debacle of bailing in insured depositors most probably would not have taken place;
2013/04/18
Committee: ECON
Amendment 216 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. Urges the Commission to come forward with a proposal for mandatory separation of banks' retail and investment activities;deleted
2013/04/18
Committee: ECON
Amendment 237 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Underlines that such proposal might hinder the functioning of the whole banking sector of the EU, distort competition and pose far-reaching negative effects on the economic growth;
2013/04/18
Committee: ECON
Amendment 293 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
12. Urges the Commission to ensure that separation results in: (a) separate legal entities, with separate sources of funding for the bank's retail and investment entities; (b) limits on the extent to which the two entities are reliant on each other for funding and/or resources; in particular, there should be no legal basis for shifting capital and liquidity from ring-fenced entities to other entities in the group; (c) the application of adequate, thorough and separate capital, leverage and liquidity rules to each entity, including separate balance sheets; (d) net and gross large exposure limits for intra-group transactions between ring- fenced and non-ring-fenced activities, which are at least as strict as those for third-party exposure, including strict limits on the exposure of ring-fenced activities to the investment entity's riskier activities;deleted
2013/04/18
Committee: ECON
Amendment 465 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
29. Urges the Commission and the Member States to work together to promote greater diversification and competition of the EU's banking sector by encouraging and facilitating more consumer-oriented banking, for example through cooperative, building society, peer-to-peer lending and saving bank models; stresses that fully functioning Single Market is the key;
2013/04/18
Committee: ECON