Bavaria: center of international finance

Centered in Munich, Bavaria's financial community is one of the most important in Europe. The country-best market capitalization
of the companies headquartered in Munich makes the city's stock exchange one of the most important ones in Germany. These companies form the node of a business community whose performance and size are two reasons why Munich regularly tops the rankings of Germany's cities. Two other factors: sustained and sustainable prosperity and growth, and an infrastructure of innovation.

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Continuing need to discuss Basel III

Continuing need to discuss Basel III
Munich Financial Center Initiative (known by its German acronym of “fpmi”) views the drafts submitted by the EU Commission on how to implement Basel III’s stipulations as still requiring thoroughgoing discussion.
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Courses of action sustainably leading the way out of the debt crisis

Munich Financial Center Initiative
The European economic and currency union is a great story of success. The value of the euro – viewed both internally and vis-à-vis the outside world – is high and stable. The currency has formed the basis for the dynamic growth of Europe’s economy. This dynamic growth has fostered the prosperity prevailing both in Germany and in Europe as a whole.
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Courses of action sustainably leading the way out of the debt crisis

Munich Financial Center Initiative
The European economic and currency union is a great story of success. The value of the euro – viewed both internally and vis-à-vis the outside world – is high and stable. The currency has formed the basis for the dynamic growth of Europe’s economy. This dynamic growth has fostered the prosperity prevailing both in Germany and in Europe as a whole.
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Mixed responses to the EU’s resolutions at the Bavarian Financial Summit

Mixed responses to the EU’s resolutions at the Bavarian Financial Summit
Europe’s sovereign debt crisis has been dominating the headlines for the last few months. The crisis has also been at the center of Germany’s economic and financial policies and discourse. As a matter of course, the possible consequences of the crisis – and ways out of it – formed the focal point of the Fifth Bavarian Financial Summit.
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EU directive for residential real estate loan contracts urgently requires improvement

Verbraucherkreditrichtlinien
Munich Financial Center Initiative (known by its German acronym of "fpmi") still sees a considerable need to alter the directive submitted by the EU Commission on real estate loan contracts. This is because the current draft does not meet its objective of improving consumer protection, because it contains non-practicable stipulations, and because it would damage Germany's financial community.
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fpmi inside: hard-hitting views on the lessons of the financial crisis

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Networking is one reason why Munich Financial Centre Initiative (known by its German acronym of "fpmi") regularly stages the get-togethers going by the name "fpmi inside". Another reason is providing these "insiders" with the ...
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fpmi criticizes recommendation of EU Commission on basic accounts

fpmi beurteilt Basiskonto-Empfehlung der EU-Kommission kritisch
Munich Financial Center Initiative (known by its German acronym of “fpmi”) has taken a critical stance towards the EU Commission’s initiative on basic accounts. The initiative is the way in which Michel Barnier, the EU Commissioner ...
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Munich Financial Center Initiative issues appraisal of Solvency II and Basel III

Gutachten
“Solvency II” and “Basel III” could give rise to substantial risks to the financing of German companies, should the mutually reinforcing effects of these regulatory reforms in the insurance and banking sector not be taken into account.
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fpmi inside: sustaining success

fpmi inside: sustaining success
Germany's real estate industry does much more than pay lip service to the idea of "sustainability". Rather, it makes use of this concept to sustain success, reported Dieter Weiß, member of the managing board of KGAL, during his lecture at ...
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