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When trust in the financial system disappears, panic sets in: fire sales of financial assets and bank runs can make the entire system collapse. Taxpayers are forced to bail out “too-big-to-fail” institutions to protect essential economic functions (deposits, credit, payment systems).

Mitigating implicit “moral hazard” requires sound prudential policies protecting essential banking services from excessive risk-taking and maintaining adequate capital levels to cover possible losses. Well-resourced, and independent supervision is also key. Finally, prudential regulation must also respond to new risks related to digitalisation (see “Digital Finance”) and climate change (see climate risk under “Sustainable Finance”).

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Consultation response

Response to Commission consultation on the market risk prudential framework

Report

Report on the Bank Resolution and Recovery Proposal of the EC

Report on the EU’s Bank Recovery and Resolution proposals.
Consultation response

Finance Watch response to the questionnaire on long-term investment funds

Factsheet

Cheat sheet: What is UCITS V?

UCITS stands for Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities, a popular category of regulated investment vehicle that accounts for around 85% of all European investment fund assets. UCITS are popular as...
Consultation response

Response to PCBS on proprietary trading

Position paper

Amendments to French bank reform proposals

Finance Watch document proposing amendments to the French proposals for the separation and control of French banking.
Position paper

Finance Watch’s assessment of German High-Frequency Trading Act

In January 2013, Finance Watch was invited to give evidence at a public hearing on the proposal for an High-Frequency Trading Act (“Gesetzentwurf zur Vermeidung von Gefahren und Missbräuchen im Hochfrequenzhandel”) organised...
Open letter

Open letter to Pierre Moscovici on French banking reform

In an open letter sent yesterday to the French finance Minister, Pierre Moscovici,Finance Watch warns that the draft bank reform would fail to deliver President Hollande’s pledge to separate the credit activities of...
Consultation response

Response to EC consultation on benchmarks

Consultation response

Response to EC consultation on Liikanen recommendations

Position paper

Bank structures and Banking Union: Presentation at Finethikon

Presentation by Finance Watch Secretary General Thierry Philipponnat at the Third Congress on Finance Ethics, the “Finethikon”, 26 October 2012, about the problems of moral hazard and banking structure in repation to EU plans...
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