Focus on: TTIP & finance

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  25-Nov-2016 Madhyam

  Embedding human rights into corporate tax planning

  The exploitation of loopholes has become the favorite play of an organized tax avoidance industry.
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  18-Apr-2016 Politico

  Lawmakers pushing financial regs in TTIP

  Fifteen House members emphasized to President Barack Obama that they want to see TTIP cover financial services regulations.
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  10-Mar-2016 EurActiv

  Latest round of TTIP talks boost momentum

  Progress was made in the latest round of TTIP talks, but negotiators have a long way to go if the deal is to be signed before Barack Obama leaves office.
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  16-Feb-2016 Tele Sur

  US-EU trade will undermine ’tax justice,’ says report

  The secretive TTIP could make it easier than ever for big business to sue governments, according to new research.
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  19-Jan-2016 Sputnik

  TTIP, tax havens contribute to extreme global inequality

  TTIP perpetuate inequality because of their secrecy and preference for the interests of the wealthy over financial regulations and labor rights.
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  5-Nov-2015 The Guardian

  The gathering financial storm is just one effect of corporate power unbound

  What have governments learned from the financial crisis? I could write a column spelling it out. Or I could do the same job with one word: nothing.
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  19-Oct-2015 Sputnik

  Leaked documents show TTIP negotiations in deadlock on most issues

  EU member states are concerned about the “tough negotiation process in all key areas” of the TTIP agreement
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  31-Aug-2015 Europe Solidaire

  Le TTIP bientôt au service des usuriers vautours américains

  Ceux qui contestent mollement l’adhésion prochaine quasi certaine de la France au TTIP feraient bien de réfléchir concrètement à ce que cela signifiera au regard des protections encore apportées par les législations européennes à l’égard des usuriers vautours.
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  23-Apr-2015 EurActiv

  Insurers lead moves to include financial services in TTIP

  Insurers from the US and EU are amongst leading backers of a financial services chapter within the Transatlantic Trade & Investment Partnership (TTIP), although the US remains opposed officially.
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  4-Dec-2014 Public Citizen

  Congressional Financial Services Committee leaders: Exclude ISDS from US-EU deal

  US congressional leaders have just sent a letter to the Obama administration warning against TAFTA/TTIP provisions that could restrict Congress’ ability to prevent another financial crisis.
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  19-Nov-2014 ARD

  Leaked documents on TTIP

  Leaked TTIP negotiating documents show that the EU is trying to protect European banks from strong American financial regulations.
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  9-Jul-2014 Hedge Funds Review

  Irish regulator: put derivatives on TTIP agenda

  The Central Bank of Ireland’s markets director believes TTIP is the ideal forum to iron out differences over substituted compliance and establish agreement on monitoring and data collection systems
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  2-Jul-2014 Le Monde

  Comment les Européens poussent les Américains à déréguler la finance

  Dans le cadre des négociations sur l’accord commercial transatlantique, les Européens s’apprêteraient à faire une proposition demandant moins de règles pour les banques et les marchés financiers et remettant en cause le travail d’encadrement de ce secteur réalisé depuis la crise, révèle un document fuité par Corporate Europe Observatory
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  2-Jul-2014 IB Times

  TTIP won’t let big banks wriggle out of regulations, EU negotiators insist

  The European Commission denies that it is using the negotiations over the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership to weaken financial regulation for the benefit of financial institutions.

• 1-Jul-2014 CEO

  EU-US FTA (TTIP) - draft regulatory co-operation on financial regulation (March 2014)

  As leaked by CEO

• 30-Jun-2014 AIA

  EU and US insurers support including financial services market access and regulatory cooperation in TTIP

  Insurance Europe, the American Insurance Association and the American Council of Life Insurers have issued a statement supporting the inclusion of market access and regulatory cooperation in financial services in TTIP.

• 17-Jun-2014 EurActiv

  Les services financiers restent exclus des négociations transatlantiques

  Les services financiers ne seront pas abordés lors du prochain cycle de négociation entre l’UE et les États-Unis sur le TTIP, selon un document confidentiel de la Commission.

• 16-Jun-2014 Xinhua

  EU pushes US to include financial regulation in free trade deal

  A top European Union (EU) official on Friday continued to push for the inclusion of financial regulation in a free trade agreement with the United States, saying it’s vital to ensure global financial stability.

• 19-Mar-2014 Finance Watch

  Finance Watch says there is no proven case for including financial services in TTIP

  TTIP risks ‘race to the bottom’ in financial services regulation says Finance Watch, the independent public interest group working to make finance serve society.
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  10-Mar-2014 The Guardian

  Give and take in the EU-US trade deal? Sure. We give, the corporations take

  George Monbiot asks why businesses have got more access to the negociations than citizens and their representative organisations have and sets down some challenges to the architects of TTIP.

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