Peter Norwood
Senior Research and Advocacy Officer
As Senior Research and Advocacy officer, Peter Norwood works on retail services/consumer protection and financial inclusion issues.
Peter Norwood has extensive experience in EU financial services policy. He has worked for more than ten years for regulators, institutions and associations in the financial services sector, including the German Insurance Association (GDV), one of the biggest UK retail bank, the European Commission (as a Seconded National Expert) and the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).
Throughout his career, Peter has worked on a wide variety of different EU financial services policy topics, including insurance, capital markets, sustainable finance, retail services and financial inclusion, and financial stability.
At Finance Watch, Peter is in charge of the retail and financial inclusion workstream, focusing on over-indebtedness, consumer and mortgage credit, financial inclusion, consumer protection and digitalisation issues (including the use of consumer data by financial services providers). Peter also represents Finance Watch in the Financial Services User Group (FSUG) of the European Commission.
Prior to his professional career, he graduated from Georgetown University in Washington, DC with an MA in European Studies and from the George Washington University with a BA in International Affairs. Moreover, he attended the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris for a year to complete the university’s undergraduate student exchange program.
Policy Area
- Retail & Inclusion
Areas of expertise:
- Consumer and mortgage credit
- Digital finance
- Financial inclusion
- Retail finance
Contact Information
Finance Watch
Rue Ducale 67 b3, 1000 Bruxelles
Participated in these publications
Digital Finance
28/04/2023
What should the final distance marketing of consumer financial services rules look like?
Digital Finance
10/03/2023
Views on Council General Approach to Distance Marketing of Financial Services
Retail & Inclusion
19/10/2022
Root causes of household over-indebtedness
Digital Finance
05/07/2022
Response to the European Commission’s Consultation on Open Finance Framework and Data Sharing in the Financial Sector
Retail & Inclusion
30/05/2022
Position Paper on the Retail Investment Strategy
Retail & Inclusion
25/04/2022
Factsheet – Creditworthiness assessment for small loans: the key to prevent consumer over-indebtedness
Retail & Inclusion
24/03/2022
Report – Tackling causes of over-indebtedness in the EU consumer credit market
Retail & Inclusion
28/02/2022
Amending the Mortgage Credit Directive to address consumer protection issues, digitalisation and green mortgages
Retail & Inclusion
20/01/2022
Report – From debtor prisons to being prisoners of debt
Sustainable Finance
16/11/2021
Insurance Sector and Climate-Related Financial Risks: Response to the FIO
Retail & Inclusion
27/09/2021
Response to consultation: Directive on Distance Marketing of Consumer Financial Services
Sustainable Finance
08/07/2021
Report – Insuring the uninsurable: Tackling the link between climate change and financial instability in the insurance sector
Digital Finance
18/03/2021
Consumer protection: Digitalisation of retail financial services during the Covid-19 pandemic
Retail & Inclusion
09/02/2021
Consumer credit market malpractices uncovered
Stability & Supervision
21/10/2020
Consultation response on the review of Solvency II
Participated in these articles
Stability & Supervision
23/11/2022
Going further to make the online financial services market safer and fairer for Europeans
Stability & Supervision
24/05/2022
Will the revised EU Consumer Credit Directive fully protect vulnerable consumers?
Stability & Supervision
12/04/2022
With inflation, unregulated financial products will harm the vulnerable even more. Unless…
Policy Area
- Retail & Inclusion
Areas of expertise:
- Consumer and mortgage credit
- Digital finance
- Financial inclusion
- Retail finance
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