Regulation: Battle lines drawn across the Atlantic

European banks will seek to gain an advantage if global regulations can be agreed.

Sixteen months after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, and the near failure of the financial system, the world’s governments and financial regulators are still some way from agreeing the inevitable new set of rules that will shape the landscape of financial markets and, hopefully, prevent crises of such magnitude in the future.

Finding common ground will not be easy. European banks still complain about the failure of their US counterparts to institute Basle I. US banks counter that European banks are relatively over-leveraged.

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