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...

Still Going Round in Circles: The Revolving Door Between Banks And Their Regulators

The European Banking Authority (EBA) is one of the most important organisations overseeing rules and setting technical standards...

Robert Jenkins’ partial list of bank misdeeds

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

#NoMoreCrises: Unkept Promises of Reform

The true cost of the 2008 crisis As authorities only just prevented a 2023 repeat of the 2008...

Caritas France joins the fight to re-regulate finance

Regulating finance is a necessity for all The power of financial markets in shaping our societies wouldn’t be...

Financial education; the what, the how, the why…

Financial education is on the agenda again. You probably know the sales pitch: customers who know about financial...

Splitting Deutsche Bank?

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

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...

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...

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...

Should we close financial markets?

Financial markets have had two main characteristics since the start of the coronavirus crisis: they have dropped sharply...

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...

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...

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...

Representation of public interest in banking #2 – Who is challenging finance? Examining the diversity of voices in the design of financial regulation

Defining what is the public interest in the regulation of banking and financial markets is difficult, as this...

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...

New trade deals restrain governments on financial regulation

Ten years after the 2008 crisis, we are still not protected from new financial crises. Yet, the CETA...

10 Years after the Failure of Lehman Brothers: Once more unto the brink

The opportunity for a fundamental realignment of the global financial sector seems to have come and gone. Whatever...

Better regulation: Why more stakeholder involvement benefits some more than others

The Better Regulation package proposed by the Commission on 15 May 2015 is a response to President Juncker’s...

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