Third Country Rules under Benchmark Regulation Will Harm Non-Financial Companies

The third country provision according to the proposed EU Benchmark Regulation will have negative consequences for non-financial companies. As long as the home countries of the relevant benchmark providers do not enact a similar regulation it is highly likely that a number of important benchmarks will not be available anymore for European banks and thus their customers. This briefing note explains the concerns in detail and supplements a previous position of Deutsches Aktieninstitut.