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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

Policy brief

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

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

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

Consultation response

Consultation response on the review of prudential rules for insurance and reinsurance firms (Solvency II Directive)

Consultation response

Consultation response on the functioning of the EU securitisation framework

Consultation response

Consultation Response on the Supervisory Convergence and the Single Rule Book

Consultation response

Consultation response on the Review of the Crisis Management and Deposit Insurance framework (CMDI)

Speech

Tackling non-performing loans in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic

A statement provided by Finance Watch Head of Research and Advocacy Thierry Philipponnat  at the European Economic and Social Committee hearing on 15 February 2021.
Consultation response

Response to EU Commission on review of Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD)

Speech

Public hearing on EU Banking Package at German Bundestag

On 28 October 2020, Finance Watch participated in a public hearing at the German Bundestag Finance Committee on the implementation of the EU Banking Package.
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