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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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20 PUBLICATIONS

Consultation response

Response to Commission consultation on the market risk prudential framework

Position paper

Assessing transition risk in prudential transition plans

Principles to identify and manage deviation from Paris-aligned pathways
Consultation response

Finance Watch’s response to the consultation on Taxonomy criteria and disclosures – Consultation response

Position paper

Foundations for simple, transparent and meaningful SFDR product categories

Key considerations for defining product categories and respective minimum criteria
Joint statement

Joint call for clearer ESG categorisation rules for individual investors – Joint Letter

Finance Watch, Better Finance, and the European Consumer Organisation (BEUC) call on the European Commission to remove any confusing categories (ESG Collection), and to make engagement a binding element, at least for...
Joint statement

EU sustainability disclosures are no threat to competitiveness – Joint letter

Finance Watch alongside 90+ organisations urges EU leaders to refrain from gutting EU’s hard-won sustainability framework, an essential brick that is no less than a pre-condition to wiring EU finance to a...
Policy brief

Policy brief – Empower investors to drive the climate transition

Towards more credible and transparent transition plans
Policy brief

“Safe transition planning for banks”: Recommendations for EU’s new ‘prudential’ transition plans

In this policy brief, Finance Watch makes concrete recommendations for the upcoming EBA requirements on “prudential” transition plans for EU banks in order to bring legal certainty and comparability and make transition...
Consultation response

Improving transparency and understandability for retail investors: A reaction to the 2024 joint ESAs’ opinion on SFDR

Consultation response

Consultation response: Adapting the Irish Consumer Protection Code to today’s challenges

Position paper

Sustainable investing: Tailoring the transparency framework for retail investors – Position Paper

Finance Watch’s recommendations to align PRIIPS and sustainability preferences with SFDR
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