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

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

Faced with the rise of populism in Europe, it’s all too convenient for national politicians  to lay the...

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

Over the last five years the European Union has faced financial crises, acute imbalances, problems of macro-economic coordination,...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The current EU financial regulation is by no means perfect, and it certainly cannot afford any risk of...

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

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