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Finance

  • Research Briefing

    Riot (Compensation) Bill

    Tuesday, 01 December, 2015

    The riots in London and other cities in 2011 raised serious issues about insurance liability and compensation. This Bill is the response.

    • Research Briefing
    • Crime
    • Criminal law
    • Finance
  • Research Briefing

    Riot (Damages) Bill

    Friday, 27 November, 2015

    This Commons Library briefing paper has been archived.

    • Research Briefing
    • Crime
    • Finance
  • Debate Pack

    Personal Injury Fraud

    Tuesday, 17 November, 2015

    A Westminster Hall debate on personal injury fraud has been scheduled for Wednesday 18 November 2015 at 1430hrs. The member in charge of the debate is Karl McCartney.

    • Debate Pack
    • Crime
    • Criminal law
    • Finance
    • Roads
  • Research Briefing

    Equitable Life: compensation scheme

    Thursday, 05 November, 2015

    This note is designed to summarise the processes and principles behind the Equitable Life compensation scheme. It is designed to help constituents who wish to know what they might expect and what they have to do if they believe that they are due compensation.

    • Research Briefing
    • Finance
  • Research Briefing

    The future of British banking and RBS

    Friday, 30 October, 2015

    A Backbench Business Committee debate will focus on the UK Government's policy to sell off its share holdings in the Royal Bank of Scotland acquired as part of the rescue of the bank following the financial crash. The debate is also set to look at alternative bank structures designed to improve lending to industry and the economy.

    • Research Briefing
    • Finance
  • Research Briefing

    Immigration Bill 2015-16

    Tuesday, 06 October, 2015

    The Immigration Bill 2015-16 is due to have its second reading in the Commons on 13 October.

    • Research Briefing
    • Asylum
    • Finance
    • Housing and planning
    • Immigration
    • Nationality
    • Roads
    • Work and incomes
  • Research Briefing

    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.

    • Research Briefing
    • Finance
  • Research Briefing

    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.

    • Research Briefing
    • Finance
    • Roads
  • Research Briefing

    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
  • Research Briefing

    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.

    • Research Briefing
    • Finance
  • Research Briefing

    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.

    • Research Briefing
    • Armed forces
    • Asia Pacific
    • Benefits policy
    • Business
    • Child care
    • Children and families
    • Climate change
    • Communities
    • Consumers
    • Crime
    • Culture, media and sport
    • Defence
    • Defence policy
    • Demography
    • Economic policy
    • Economic situation
    • Elections
    • Energy
    • Europe
    • Family law
    • Farming and fishing
    • Finance
    • Further education
    • Government
    • Health services
    • Higher education
    • Housing and planning
    • Immigration
    • Industry
    • Institutions
    • International trade
    • Justice
    • Middle East
    • Parliament
    • Pensions
    • Pre-school education
    • Press and media
    • Prisons
    • Public spending
    • Rail
    • Schools
    • Sciences
    • Security
    • Tax
    • Technology
    • The EU
    • Work and incomes
  • Research Briefing

    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
  • Research Briefing

    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
  • Research Briefing

    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
  • Research Briefing

    Credit Unions

    Monday, 05 January, 2015

    Can credit unions ever live up to governments' hopes?

    • Research Briefing
    • Finance

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