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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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10 PUBLICATIONS

Consultation response

11/03/2025

Stability & Supervision

Finance Watch responds to Commission’s call for evidence – Communication on European Savings and Investments Union

Open letter

16/09/2024

Stability & Supervision

Finance Watch Calls on ECON to Advance European Deposit Insurance Scheme (EDIS) and Protect Depositors

In a letter addressed to the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON), Finance Watch calls on European policymakers to proceed with preparations for the European Deposit Insurance Scheme (EDIS), which has...

Consultation response

15/07/2022

Stability & Supervision

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

Position paper

15/11/2019

Stability & Supervision

Three reforms to strengthen the Banking Union and the euro area

As a complement to a hearing held on 7 November 2019 by MEP Pedro Marques as rapporteur for the Banking Union Annual Report, Finance Watch published a technical brief on the financial...

Speech

17/05/2016

Stability & Supervision

Speech at the EC public hearing on the Call for Evidence – A review of the EU regulatory framework for financial services

Finance Watch’s Secretary General, Christophe Nijdam, gave a speech at the European Commission’s public hearing on the Public hearing on the “Call for Evidence on the EU regulatory framework for financial services – understanding...

Factsheet

21/02/2016

Stability & Supervision

Cheat sheet: What is Banking Union (SRM and SSM)?

Background; Actions of Finance Watch; Key risks; and our Publications on this dossier.

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

29/10/2012

Stability & Supervision

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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