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...

The Better Regulation restaurant

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

Monitoring derivatives trading books in the current context of financial markets turmoil

OUR ANALYSES OF THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS: Managing derivatives positions in a controlled manner requires that a number of...

Splitting Deutsche Bank?

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

Деофшоризация в финансах: как регуляторы ужесточают контроль за низконалоговыми юрисдикциями

В последние годы глобальные регуляторы ведут активную борьбу с уходом компаний в офшоры, стремясь вернуть налогооблагаемые активы в...

Financial regulation: Small victories on revolving doors

In an unprecedented move to avoid conflicts of interest, the European Parliament rejected the nomination of an ex-lobbyist,...

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...

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...

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...

Blocking complexity – how complex regulation blocks public interest representation

Banking regulation in Europe and around the world is dominated by technical and expert rule-making and enforcement. In...

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...

Representation of public interest in banking #0 – Introduction: A contribution to shaping a vision for the future of banking in Europe

The essential nature of some of the core functions of banks combined with the enormous potential costs of...

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...

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...

Basel III finalisation comes undone: A proposal that lets down citizens and backtracks on global agreements

Overview The global regulatory framework agreed by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision in December 2017 (Basel III),...

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,...

Should we close financial markets?

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

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?...

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...

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...

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