(Reuters) – British regulators are pressuring Bank of America Corp’s European investment-banking arm to improve its risk management practices, saying the current ones are “simplistic” an…

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You may have been following the efforts to bring European and U.S. accounting standards into conformity, and how difficulty that has been.  I would evaluate the chance of bringing the various different governance and risk management codes into conformity as zero. And as the European regulatory agencies appear to be getting more active and demanding both with the code provisions and enforcement, we might expect European developments in these areas to become more center stage.  Dave Tate, Esq. (San Francisco / California)