Traduction de «foreign financial institution » (Anglais → Français) :

The difference in treatment of interest paid to Belgian financial institutions and to foreign financial institutions is likely to restrict foreign institutions' freedom to provide services on the Belgian market and therefore contravenes Article 56 TFEU.

4. Calls for supervisory authorities to closely monitor the funding and liquidity risks resulting from foreign currency lending, to take action to prevent excessive risks and to require financial institutions to have effective pricing, capital allocation and liquidity management systems to deal with foreign currency lending and to take account of the consumer’s ability to withstand fluctuations in the exchange rate when assessing the consumer’s creditworthiness; calls for Member States to require financial ...[+++]institutions to allow consumers to convert the loan into an alternative currency, in accordance with a transparent method disclosed to the consumer in pre-contractual information, and for financial institutions to provide a foreign exchange hedging facility at reasonable cost to consumers to limit the risk of adverse currency movement on repayments;

1. Calls for supervisory authorities to require financial institutions to provide consumers with personalised, complete and easily understandable information regarding the risks involved in foreign currency lending and the impact on instalments of a severe depreciation of the legal tender of the Member State in which a consumer is domiciled and of an increase in the foreign interest rate; considers that this information should be included in advertising concerning consumer credit agreements in foreign currency, in pre-contractual inf ...[+++]ormation and in consumer credit agreements;

6. Calls, nevertheless, for supervisory authorities to require financial institutions to provide consumers with personalised, complete and easily understandable explanations regarding the risks involved in foreign currency lending, and regarding the impact on instalments of a severe depreciation of the legal tender of the Member State in which a consumer is domiciled as well as of an increase in the foreign interest rate; considers that these explanations should be provided before any contract is signed.

12. Notes that for years the Chinese banking system has been growing rapidly; that this has been accompanied by a gradual opening of the banking and financial sector to foreign interests; that this is taking place in accordance with the basic principles of the WTO Agreement and the transitional periods granted to China when it joined the WTO; that many Chinese commercial banks have already been authorised to work with foreign lenders; that, finally, more than 400 international banks and financial institutions have opened branches or representations in China; calls on China to continue this process, further to relax the remaining restrictions on foreign banks as regards customer transactions, areas of business and regional activities an ...[+++]d ultimately to dismantle them altogether in order to create greater scope for development for foreign banks or banks with foreign capital participation; calls on China, furthermore, to allow all foreign or mixed banks to conduct customer transactions in the Renminbi, and, in the near future to lift all restrictions on Renminbi transactions by foreign banks throughout China; calls on China, furthermore, in addition to relaxing market access rules for foreign or mixed banks implemented introduced so far, also to relax controls on external financial institutions and, in this connection, to reduce the capital requirements for the establishment of foreign financial institutions from the present excessively high level so as to allow these undertakings effective market access;

Ideally, the award of a tender should be the sole task of an independent, foreign financial institution, acting alone, according to international norms and reporting conditions, and one that has no conflict of interest in that country or in that project.