The EU and the CFTC have announced that they will be working together in their implementation of cross-border regulation, after talks in Washington.

The regulators have been piecing together new laws in the hopes of preventing a similar financial crisis to the one in 2008, which had significant negative effects on both country’s economies.

The EU and the CFTC have agreed to “minimize the divergence on margin requirements” for over the counter derivatives, according to a report by Bloomberg. They have also promised to work together and create consistent standards for cross-border regulation.

This is actually the second time the EU and CFTC have discussed cohesion on cross border regulation. Back in July of 2013, the two regulators had agreed to work together on these issues. However, the CFTC was very quick to act on derivative regulation while ex-chairman Gary Gensler was in charge, implementing many of the initiatives of the Dodd-Frank act before the EU had even finished discussions on how they would go about regulating the industry.

Included in the CFTC’s initiatives were rules for cross-border regulation that had been criticized for affecting many of Europe’s banks, which lead to tension between the two regulators.

Now that Gensler has left the CFTC, it seems likely the Commission may slow down on its rule making, giving the EU a chance to catch up.

The two regulators will be meeting again in July.