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ENLIGHTEN: European legitimacy in governing through hard times
The ‘European Legitimacy in Governing through Hard Times: the role of European Networks’ (ENLIGHTEN) project (2015-2018) is funded by...
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So-called “Basel IV” would help restore trust in the health of the European banking sector
Current bank prudential regulation allows large banks to use their internal models to calculate their risk weights....
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Jamie Dimon’s letter to shareholders
JPMorgan has released its Annual Report. JPM’s Chairman Jamie Dimon introduces the 320 page tome with...
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More useful, less interconnected. A UK view on bank structure reform
Thomas Lines, a British consultant and former journalist and lecturer, says the mandatory separation of retail...
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Too Big to Separate? A French and German defence of their biggest banks
Iain Hardie and Huw Macartney present here the outcome of their research on the political process...
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#NoMoreCrises: Unkept Promises of Reform
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The continuous fling with investment banking
Compared to its neighbours France and Germany, Belgium passed a far more ambitious banking reform. However,...
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Just a little bit of banking separation
German policy-makers have passed preemptive legislation on banking structure with the aim of influencing the direction...
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The Italian EU Presidency – A missed chance
Our contribution from Italy by Andrea Baranes from the Finance Watch member organisation Fondazione Culturale Responsabilità...
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