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

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

12 propositions for reforming our financial system (See also the original version in German) The importance of the...

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

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

Interest of beneficiaries in responsible investment Europeans continue to experience the impact of the financial crisis, including unemployment,...

In this blog article, Corporate Europe Observatory’s Vicky Cann summarizes the findings of their new report “Accounting for...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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