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Lew Says EU Open To Excluding Financial Services Regs From TTIP

March 23, 2016 at 4:24 PM
U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said Tuesday (March 22) that he has made inroads with the European Commission on moving away from its demands that financial services regulatory cooperation be part of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership negotiations. “I think we've made some progress with the Europeans, … to shift the discussion of prudential regulation to the existing international bodies that are set up to appropriately deal with it,” Lew testified to the House Financial Services Committee. The EU...


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