You enjoyed the last financial crisis? You will love the next one, still more devastating…

Can you think of a motorway with no speed limit, where drinking alcohol is permitted, and even making...

The Better Regulation restaurant

Setting the table for Better Regulation? When Frans Timmermans presented the Better Regulation Package in May, he used the analogy...

Representation of public interest in banking #3 – What blocks public participation in banking?

The activities of Europe’s banks concern all of its citizens: almost everyone has a bank account (World Bank, 2014),...

Plus de dérégulation de la finance ne soutiendra pas les PME

S’exprimant lors des « Conférences citoyennes » à Epinal le 17 avril dernier, Emmanuel Macron a réitéré sa proposition de...

DeFi vs. TradFi: как регуляторы реагируют на децентрализованные финансы?

Финансовый мир стоит на пороге революции: с одной стороны — традиционные финансы (TradFi) с их вековыми институтами, строгим...

Finance Watch’s view on the COVID-19 Banking Package

OUR ANALYSES OF THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS: The COVID-19 Banking Package: More flexibility in the EU’s banking rules On...

Hiding in Plain View: Why economists can’t see the obvious coming

The meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago was not a “Black Swan”. It was...

Splitting Deutsche Bank?

With a cumulative balance sheet nearly as big as the GDP of the EU-27 (94% as of 2015), the...

The last stretch: reaping the benefits of the sustainable finance framework

In 2018, as part of the European Green Deal, the European Commission presented an EU action plan on sustainable...

About the decisions taken by European bank regulators and supervisors in the face of the coronavirus crisis

Our analyses of the coronavirus crisis: Bank regulators and supervisors have taken a number of important measures over...

The power of democracy against the power of finance

All over Europe, youth climate strikers are hitting the streets of cities and pushing to exit our brown,...

Representation of public interest in banking #1 – The major contribution of the workshops in the research

When we first started with the idea of our research project on the representation of public interest in...

The EU’s role in international financial bodies

Who sets the rules governing the financial sector? What interests are represented? If we look at Europe, financial...

A Paradise for the 0.1%

We should not be surprised at the scale of tax evasion revealed by the Paradise Papers. As the name...

The so-called “science” of economics could not care less about forecasting crises

A crisis is a sudden degradation: it becomes systemic when it affects an entire system – which system?...

The insufficient role of EDIS in restoring trust in banks

Banks are uniquely prone to runs because they borrow short and lend long, creating a maturity mismatch in...

The stage is being set for another financial crisis

2008: A Crisis We Should Have Learned From In 2008, the world experienced the worst financial crisis since...

Robert Jenkins’ partial list of bank misdeeds

Source: https://www.finance-watch.org/blog/robert-jenkins-partial-list-of-bank-misdeeds/

From a health crisis to financial turmoil: Supervisors must make sure finance does not backfire

Our analyses of the coronavirus crisis: The crisis of 2007 – 2009 saw the financial sector infect society:...

Representation of public interest in banking #4 – The banks, the public and the secluded world of the BCBS: who has access?

Bank lobbying around this month’s meeting of the Basel Committee of Banking Supervision shows how far the pendulum...

Financial Supervision and Regulation

Explore the role of financial supervision and regulation in maintaining market integrity and protecting consumers. Learn about compliance requirements, oversight mechanisms, and international standards that ensure transparency and accountability in the financial sector. Find resources to stay compliant.