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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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Report – Artificial intelligence in finance: how to trust a black box?

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Report – Lost Momentum: The Evolution and Challenges of Basel III

Finance Watch examines the progress and challenges of the Basel III framework and addresses the looming risks to global financial stability. The report urges policymakers not to withdraw from international cooperation, but...
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Report – Europe’s coming investment crisis: Capital markets can only match a third of EU’s essential needs

In these times of hardship, Europe’s financing channels – even with the full strength of capital markets – would only match a third of the EU’s essential investment needs. Finance Watch’s new...
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Report: Breaking down barriers to basic payment accounts in the EU

Finance Watch releases a new study identifying the barriers to basic payment accounts for vulnerable consumers in Germany, Spain and Romania, and calls on EU policymakers to update the EU Payment Accounts...
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Report – Transition Planning for Insurers: A supervisory tool to improve climate risk resilience

As climate chaos seals the fate of usual economic models in the insurance sector, transition plans are poised to become lifelines for insurers and for the whole economy. This report highlights the...
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Report: A Finance Watch guide to the next ‘sustainable finance agenda’

The next ‘sustainable finance agenda’ could be a jump board to a sustainable economy in the EU. Finance Watch’s new report maps out gaps in the current sustainable finance framework and formulates...
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Report – Finance in a hot house world

Climate risk is growing to disruptive levels throughout the financial system and the guardians of financial stability urgently need to adapt their tools to regain control. Finance Watch’s new report calls for...
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Report – The debts we need: Reinforcing Debt Sustainability with Future-Oriented Fiscal Rules

Misinformed fear about financial markets and debt sustainability has clouded the debate on Europe’s new fiscal rules. This report unveils interactions between European financial markets and sovereign debt and proposes reforms to...
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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.
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Report – Financing Local Green Enterprises. Closing the funding gap for sustainable MSMEs in developing countries

Finance Watch and Green Economy Coalition have compiled the findings of seven case studies conducted in developing and emerging countries, in order to make a series of recommendations (economic and financial reforms)...
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Report – The Problem Lies in the Net: Making Finance contribute to a Net Zero Economy

In a report published on June 22, Finance Watch proposes concrete policy measures to make the concept of “net-zero” meaningful, drive progress to net-zero in the real world and harness the stewardship...
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