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This policy portal provides a public interest perspective on the issues at stake and ongoing legislative debates in the field of financial regulation.

As major rules for financial institutions are set at the EU rather than national level, EU legislators play the key role. Adequate rules are of crucial importance, as the size, complexity and influence of the financial system have reached unprecedented levels. Challenges like digitalisation or accelerating climate change need to be addressed too. There is a long way to go to make finance truly serve the economy and society.

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14 PUBLICATIONS

Consultation response

28/04/2025

Stability & Supervision

Response to Commission consultation on the market risk prudential framework

Report

03/10/2022

Sustainable Finance

Report – A safer transition for fossil banking: Quantifying capital needed to reflect transition risk

New research shows the world’s 60 biggest banks have $1.35 trillion USD of exposures to fossil fuel assets. Capital increase needed to reflect risk is equivalent to 3-5 months of bank profits.

Consultation response

04/08/2022

Sustainable Finance

Response to the EBA Discussion Paper on Environmental Risks in the Prudential Framework

Consultation response

15/07/2022

Stability & Supervision

Response to the European Commission’s consultation on State Aid for Banks in Difficulty

Open letter

07/07/2022

Sustainable Finance

Open letter: banks and insurers must account for climate risk

In the open letter below, sent to policymakers in the European Parliament, Finance Watch and 13 partners call to include mandatory transition plans and capital requirements for climate-related risks in their review...

Consultation response

07/07/2022

Sustainable Finance

Response to the FSB Consultation on Supervisory and Regulatory Approaches to Climate-related Risks

Consultation response

08/06/2022

Sustainable Finance

Comments on the FDIC statement of principles for climate-related financial risk management

Speech

31/03/2022

Stability & Supervision

Finalising Basel III to serve the European economy (ECON Hearing on the Basel III “Finalisation Package”)

At the ECON Hearing on the Basel III “Finalisation Package” on 31st March 2022, Finance Watch’s Chief Economist, Thierry Philipponnat, called for a faithful implementation of the Basel III framework and to...

Policy brief

29/03/2022

Stability & Supervision

Policy brief: “Cracks in the pillars – Financial stability loses out in the EU’s Basel III endgame”

Finance Watch’s analysis of the Banking Package 2021 shows how it fails to do justice to the Basel III cycle of post-crisis reforms and continues to leave European banks insufficiently capitalised, and...

Speech

22/03/2022

Stability & Supervision

Assessing risk properly is key to enable insurance companies to invest for the long term and to tackle climate risk (ECON Hearing on Solvency II and IRRD)

At the ECON Hearing on Solvency II and IRRD, Finance Watch calls for a symetric approach to risk assessment, adapting insurance companies’ capital requirements linked to fossil fuel exposures and creating a...

Consultation response

21/03/2022

Stability & Supervision

Improving the EU Macroprudential Framework for the Banking Sector (Consultation response)

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