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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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36 PUBLICATIONS

Position paper

Resilient banks, resilient economy

Joint statement

Joint Letter – Priorities on banking regulation, simplification and the assessment of the competitiveness of the EU banking sector

The European Commission is preparing a review of the EU banking rulebook. As calls grow to simplify financial regulation, a coalition of banks, civil society organisations and financial regulation experts warns that...
Cover image for a Finance Watch joint letter: a businessman in a suit with an orange umbrella, large white text about banking regulation priorities.
Consultation response

Finance Watch response to the Commission’s targeted consultation on the competitiveness of the EU banking sector

Consultation response

Finance Watch response to Commission call for evidence on competitiveness in the single banking market

The Commission’s review of competitiveness in the Single Banking Market should assess where changes to prudential rules improve banks’ ability to support productive investment and sustainable lending in the real economy. Simplification...
Consultation response

Improving supervisors’ assessment of bank risk management in Europe

Consultation response

Finance Watch response to the Commission Consultation on the implementation of the new market risk framework under Basel III standards

Speech

The false trade-off defining Germany’s CRD transposition (Bundestag Finance Committee hearing)

Debates on banking regulation are increasingly framed as a choice between competitiveness and prudential safeguards. Germany’s CRD transposition shows why this framing is misleading. The real tension is between bank profits and...
Consultation response

Response to Commission consultation on the market risk prudential framework

Position paper

Can Securitisation Reboot the Capital Markets Union? The limits of recent policy proposals to ‘revive’ the market for asset-backed securities in Europe

Securitisation, which played a major role in the 2008-09 financial crisis, is being revisited as a potential tool to boost bank lending and deepen capital markets. Finance Watch’s latest position paper cautions...
Report

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...
Open letter

Open letter calling on policy-makers for a Basel-compliant Europe

In an open letter signed by 36 organisations and 79 individuals, Finance Watch called on co-legislators to reconsider their deviations from the international banking rules and steer Europe back on course with...
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