The powerful European Parliament’s Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee is set to debate hedge funds and private equity regulation this month after receiving a report by Danish MEP Poul Nyrup Rasmussen.

Rasmussen declined to comment ahead of the report's publication but he is understood to have concerns about lightly or unregulated private pools of capital in private equity and hedge funds operating in the market alongside more tightly regulated institutions, such as pension funds, insurance companies and banks.