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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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Consultation response

09/01/2015

Stability & Supervision

Response to BCBS consultation on corporate governance principles in banks

Speech

02/12/2014

Stability & Supervision

Evidence to ECON Committee hearing on Bank Structure Reform

2 December 2014 – Evidence to a hearing at the European Parliament’s ECON Committee on Bank Structural Reform, by Finance Watch’s Senior Policy Analyst, Paulina Przewoska.

Open letter

27/11/2014

Stability & Supervision

Bank reforms will help lift Europe’s struggling economy

Sir, The lobbying efforts against the EU’s proposal for structural reform of its largest banks are back to front (“Banks press Brussels to ditch reforms”, November 24).

Open letter

24/10/2014

Stability & Supervision

Open letter to Michel Barnier on completion of his mandate

Open letter from Finance Watch’s Acting Secretary General, Benoît Lallemand, to Michel Barnier, the outgoing European Commissioner for Internal Market and Services, on the completion of Mr Barnier’s mandate.

Policy brief

08/10/2014

Stability & Supervision

Finance Watch Policy Brief “Should precautionary recapitalisations make taxpayers nervous?”

This policy note looks at what could happen if the ECB’s comprehensive assessment reveals capital shortfalls at banks that cannot then raise funds on the market.

Position paper

10/09/2014

Stability & Supervision

Finance Watch note “Too-big-to-fail in the EU”

Finance Watch has published a note (pdf, 12 pages – this note also exists in German and in French) that provides an overview of the EU financial regulations (passed or still in discussion) related...

Policy brief

22/07/2014

Stability & Supervision

Finance Watch Policy Brief “Structural reform to refocus banks on the real economy”

Therefore the Commission’s proposed Regulation should be on top of the Council and new Parliament’s agenda.” Finance Watch Policy Brief “Structural reform to refocus banks on the real economy”(pdf, 10 pages)

Report

05/09/2013

Stability & Supervision

“Europe’s banking trilemma” – a report on Banking Union and bank structure reform

This report on Banking Union and bank reform in the EU, “Europe’s banking trilemma” [click to download], concludes that, despite its intention, Banking Union will fail to prevent European citizens from bearing the losses...

Consultation response

11/07/2013

Stability & Supervision

Finance Watch response to EC Consultation on Banking Structure

Position paper

23/04/2013

Stability & Supervision

Position paper on German bank reform

Finance Watch position paper on German bill proposal to separate risks and to plan the recovery and resolution of credit institutions and financial groups (“Entwurf eines Gesetzes zur Abschirmung von Risiken und zur...

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