Open Finance

Retail & financial inclusion

Policy brief – Citizens are not the product

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Inequalities, pollution, democracy: Finance has a huge impact on our daily life. We must ask ourselves: What should be the purpose of finance? How can citizens take control?

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Latest News

Level : Regular

Stability 12.09.2023

#NoMoreCrises: Unkept Promises of Reform

Capital Requirements

Level : Regular

Stability 12.07.2023

Bank Capital is Good for the Economy

Bank Resolution

Level : Regular

Stability 10.07.2023

8% – We had a deal!

Green Finance

Level : Expert

Planet 17.05.2023

ESG ratings must disaggregate ESG parameters to repair sustainable investors’ trust

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Our areas of activities

Policy & Regulation

Our research and advocacy work aims at providing policy makers and civil society with technical arguments for defending the public interest in the debates around finance and financial regulation.

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Latest publications

19/09/2023 Retail & financial inclusion

Policy brief

Policy brief – Citizens are not the product

In this policy brief, Finance Watch outlines the improvements that need to be made to the EU Commission proposal on the open finance framework currently being discussed by the EU...

10/07/2023 Fiscal policy

Report

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...

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What is Finance Watch?

Making finance
serve society

To face collective challenges such as climate change and rising inequalities, we need the positive power of finance to be put at our service.
This is what Finance Watch is all about.

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Democracy

Reset Finance: A financial reform agenda for the EU elections

The plan: collective action for the EU election The Reset Finance Agenda aims at bringing CSOs, academics and campaigners together under a single vision and a set of policy reforms...

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Understanding finance

Access to cash is a basic financial right (cartoon)

Cash is universal, non-discriminatory and available to all. What’s more, it’s simple to use and grants anonymity and privacy to EU citizens. When it comes to cash versus digital payments,...

This infographic describes the various legislative initiatives undertaken at EU level and shows how complex and overlapping transition plan requirements for financial institutions risk creating legal uncertainty and regulatory burden, as opposed to one unified transition plan requirement as advocated by Finance Watch

Europe must harmonise its patchwork of transition plan requirements (infographic)

Transition plan requirements feature in several EU laws under discussion. Policymakers should harmonize these overlapping rules into a single, consistent requirement for all financial institutions to avoid legal uncertainty and...

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