Translation of "Traitement en direct des opérations bancaires " (French → English) :

21. Believes that businesses have an important role to play in advancing gender equality through actions that contribute to women’s economic empowerment and women’s economic rights, such as ensuring decent work for women, equal pay, access to finance and banking and opportunities to participate in leadership and decision making, and protecting them against discrimination and abuse in the workplace, and through gender-sensitive corporate social responsibility; calls in this context for increased support to be given to local SMEs, especially to female entrepreneurs, so as to enable them to gain from private-sector-led growth; highlights ...[+++]the positive role that micro-finance, social entrepreneurship, and alternative business models, such as mutuals and cooperatives, continue to have in the field of women’s economic empowerment and inclusion;

(b) where the information processing activity is carried on in respect of a financial institution or any other entity that is primarily engaged in the business of providing financial services, for any information processing activity that was first carried on by the bank or authorized foreign bank for its own internal purposes and is an integral part of its banking operations, including any information processing activity related to

26. Considers that central counterparties with a banking licence should be subject to a central counterparty-specific regime and not to the proposed bank recovery and resolution regime of the bank recovery and resolution directive (BRR); of particular concern in this sense is the fact that the proposed regime for banks would require them to hold an aggregate amount of debt that can be bailed-in; believes such a power would be inappropriate for central counterparties holding a banking licence because they do not ...[+++]tend to issue such debt instruments;

19. Welcomes the ECB's longer-term refinancing operations (LTRO); calls on the ECB to further act in a decisive way in addressing the current euro-area debt crisis by maintaining price stability while at the same time minimising negative spill-over effects on the real economy and the investments that the banking sector's liquidity problems might generate; believes that the banking sector must take the necessary steps to address its structural weaknesses with regard to longer-term liquidity risks in order to rest ...[+++]ore investor confidence and therefore to avoid the need for the ECB to intervene so massively in future; considers that the bank's operational framework should be shaped in such a way that a proportion of the grants would be made available for development purposes and to support small and medium-sized enterprises;

10. Considers it necessary to strike a clear balance between protecting the public and maintaining a high standard of civil liberties by placing more emphasis on and making specific proposals with regard to fighting the root causes of terrorism (including fighting poverty, radicalisation, social exclusion and lack of integration, and democratisation), and treatment of personal data (in particular in the framework of banking operations - SWIFT);

14. Believes that in the era of electronic banking and the internet, it is not acceptable for cross-border retail payments to take significantly longer than national transactions, and certainly not as long as six days; therefore calls on the Commission to propose an amendment to the cross-border credit transfers directive reducing the time period for cross-border transfers to three working days and increasing to EUR 50 000 the money-back guarantee; moreover, given that transfers between countries in the euro zone do not involve any ...[+++]exchange-related risks, such a proposal for an amendment should state explicitly that it will on no account be permitted to calculate the cost of the operation as a percentage of the sum transferred, with the same principle being applied to payments by credit card;