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Finance

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    The Big Society Bank/Capital and its role in society

    Tuesday, 04 August, 2015

    This note sets out the establishment of the Big Society Bank and its emergence and connections to the dormant bank accounts legislation. It is now called the Big Society Capital Group.

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    • Finance
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    Motor Insurers’ Bureau: untraced and uninsured drivers

    Tuesday, 07 July, 2015

    Motor Insurers' Bureau: untraced and uninsured drivers. By Louise Butcher & Tim Edmonds. SN/BT/1997.

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    • Finance
    • Roads
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    European banking union

    Monday, 29 June, 2015

    This note brings together the main documents and developments regarding the EU's pan-Community supervisory and recovery mechanism for members’ banking sectors - the Banking Union. Significant new measures were approved of in December 2013 it faces a severe test in respect to Greece in 2015..

    • Research Briefing
    • EU institutions
    • Finance
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    Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (Mifid)

    Thursday, 04 June, 2015

    This note outlines the development of EU legislation designed to improve the Single Market in equity investments through the MiFID, and now MiFID II, Directives.

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    • Finance
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    Key Issues for the 2015 Parliament

    Tuesday, 19 May, 2015

    This book examines the key issues facing the House of Commons over the course of the 2015 Parliament - from the public finances to the UK’s membership of the EU and from school places for children to climate change.

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    • Children and families
    • Climate change
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    Five years of bank reform

    Tuesday, 17 March, 2015

    This Paper brings together, in an abbreviated way, the main features of reform and regulatory activity affecting (particularly) banking to have taken place under the Coalition Government. It describes legislation and provides links to reports and studies by the principal regulatory bodies.

    • Research Briefing
    • Finance
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    Banking Crises: lessons from Sweden and Norway

    Monday, 02 February, 2015

    This note brings together narratives of two banking crises in Sweden and Norway in the early 1990s and describes the remedial action taken by central governments.

    • Research Briefing
    • Finance
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    Insurance Bill [HL]

    Tuesday, 20 January, 2015

    This is latest in a series of technical legislative measures with the broad remit of updating insurance statute law.

    • Research Briefing
    • Finance
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    Credit Unions

    Monday, 05 January, 2015

    Can credit unions ever live up to governments' hopes?

    • Research Briefing
    • Finance
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    Mutuals Deferred Shares Bill

    Monday, 29 December, 2014

    This Bill is a government-supported Private Members’ Bill which started in the Lords.

    • Research Briefing
    • Finance
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    Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill: Committee stage report

    Monday, 17 November, 2014

    This is a report on the House of Commons Committee stage of the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill.

    • Research Briefing
    • Business
    • Child care
    • Finance
    • International trade
    • Public spending
    • Schools
    • Work and incomes
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    Insurance Contract Law Bill

    Monday, 28 July, 2014

    New Law Commission proposals to modernise aspects of existing insurance law.

    • Research Briefing
    • Finance
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    The high cost consumer credit market in the UK

    Tuesday, 15 July, 2014

    This note outlines issues about high cost credit lending and attempts to reform it. It looks at evidence from various academic research and other reports into the impact of the sector on individuals both here and abroad. It also looks at the opportunities for other lenders to enter the market and to offer more competition to the current market leaders. A section at the end of the paper looks at the implications and justifications for the cost of credit cap proposals published by the Financial Conduct Authority in July 2014.

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    • Finance
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    Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill

    Thursday, 10 July, 2014

    The Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill will receive its Second Reading in the House of Commons on 16 July 2014.

    • Research Briefing
    • Business
    • Child care
    • Finance
    • International trade
    • Public spending
    • Schools
    • Work and incomes
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    Crimes and misdemeanours: penalties and punishment in the UK financial services sector.

    Tuesday, 29 April, 2014

    This note gives a broad outline of how financial crimes are defined and who is responsible for their policing.

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    • Crime
    • Criminal law
    • Finance

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