{"id":8682,"date":"2008-09-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"2-eus-mccreevy-says-no-need-to-regulate-hedge-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2008\/2-eus-mccreevy-says-no-need-to-regulate-hedge-funds.html","title":{"rendered":"2-EU&#8217;s McCreevy says no need to regulate hedge funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Hedge funds and private equity funds should be monitored closely but there are no plans to propose regulation, a top European Commission official said on Monday, sparking anger from left wing lawmakers.       <\/p>\n<p> It has been the heavily regulated sector of the financial services industry, including banks, that has been allowed to &quot;run amok with little-understood securitization vehicles,&quot; EU Internal Market Commissioner Charlie McCreevy told the European Parliament.<\/p>\n<p> &quot;I don&#8217;t believe it is necessary at this stage to tar hedge funds and private equity with the same brush as we use for the regulated sector,&quot; said McCreevy, who has sole powers to propose EU-wide financial regulation.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/marketsNews\/idUSLM47614820080922\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Hedge funds and private equity funds should be monitored closely but there are no plans to propose regulation, a top European Commission official said on Monday, sparking anger from left wing lawmakers. It has been the heavily regulated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2609,1149,117,725,2781,2814,1773,2163],"class_list":["post-8682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-brussels","tag-global-investor-network","tag-investment-arm","tag-mandatory-rules","tag-money-markets","tag-opposition","tag-prelude","tag-securities-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}