Despite that mission, successive British governments have lobbied to get a big financial dossier for the British commissioner, in a bid to safeguard the interests of the City of London.
"As I said very clearly to David, a clarification of the UK's position is indispensable for us to negotiate and for us to make sufficient progress on this financial dossier, which is inseparable for the other withdrawal dossiers," Barnier said.
Underlying regulators' efforts is their concern that some information brokers could create financial dossiers about individuals that are akin to credit reports and use them to unfairly exclude individual consumers from certain offers or charge some people higher prices than others.
The UK is in a minority of one on the issue among the 27 EU members: the first time it has ever faced complete isolation on the ever-expanding EU financial services dossier, which now comprises 29 separate pieces of legislation.
For example, a full dossier of financial and other information about an individual that can be used to commit identity theft now costs just $25 for a US victim, or $30-40 30-40 British one.
In France, you need to satisfy the landlord that you can afford to become his tenant...and, because it's France, you do this by creating a thick dossier of financial documents, bank statements, pay stubs, reference letters, bank letters, guarantor letters, etc.
The entrepreneurs pitch for 45 minutes at a time, and the judges have a well-researched dossier about each company, including financials.
It was Zen-Ruffinen who brought the allegations of corruption and financial mismanagement against Blatter to light in a dossier presented to FIFA's executive committee earlier this year.
If you've been living under a rock for the past few weeks, and need to catch up on the SpinVox saga, Rick Wray's story in yesterday's Observer was a good summary of everything that the lawyers have allowed out so far, including a mention of the six-page dossier distributed to shareholders recently, alleging financial impropriety at the company.
The Attorney General had come prepared for just such a question -- and to the assembled group he confided he had a "thick and devastating dossier" on McCarthy and his corrupt financial and private life, including details of his bedmates over recent years -- "enough to blow Senator McCarthy's show sky high".
The dossier concluded that Russia had personal and financial material on Trump that could be used as blackmail.
