Finance Watch is made up of 48 civil society Members from 12 European countries and has more than 30,000 supporters from the general public. It was created after the financial crisis to work on financial reform and regulation, acting as a citizens’ counterweight to the powerful financial lobby.
In 2016, our team attended 131 meetings with policymakers, prepared 18 consultation responses, public hearings and reports, organised two public conferences, and were cited on social media and in the press on a wide variety of issues.