Changes to come for insurance

av | aug 29, 2012 | NFU News

NFU News 2012-08-29NFU News During the summer, the European Commission tabled a proposal for a changed Insurance Mediation Directive (IMD II). In the new proposal there are quite big changes compared with the current IMD rules, and the decisions will affect a large...

European Works Council in SEB to be strengthened

av | aug 8, 2012 | NFU News

NFU News 2012-08-08NFU News The European Works Council in the bank SEB has launched an initiative to strengthen the transnational co-operation between the employee representatives to make the work of the EWC more efficient and coherent. This will in turn improve the...

A European banking union to come?

av | jun 25, 2012 | NFU News

NFU News 2012-06-25NFU News Support is building among European leaders to establish an EU banking union. Ahead of this week’s top EU summit, the leaders of France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Austria are in favour of giving up supervision over cross-national banks and...

Employees can contribute to recovery plans

av | jun 15, 2012 | NFU News

NFU News 2012-06-15NFU News To avoid bank collapses in the future, the European Banking Authority (EBA) wants all banks to have recovery plans. The recovery plan is, in short, a plan on what to do if the bank faces the risk of going down. By having a plan in place,...

EU Parliament vote for Basic Payment Account

av | jun 11, 2012 | NFU News

NFU News 2012-06-11NFU News The right to a basic bank account across Europe has been a hot topic in the European Parliament. A lot of people, especially in the Central and Eastern European countries do not have access to a basic payment account. Several EU...