The European Parliament's Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) has published two draft reports on (i) the proposed Regulation on banking structural reforms and (ii) the proposed Regulation on securities financing transactions.

Each of the draft reports contains a European Parliament legislative resolution on each of the Regulations which set out suggested amendments to the European Commission's original proposals. The draft reports are to be considered by ECON during March 2015 and the European Parliament is scheduled to consider the Regulations at its plenary session on April 27 – 30, 2015.  Report (i)Report (ii).

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