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Finance Watch 12.09.2023

Finance Watch publishes its Annual Report 2022

#NoMoreCrises

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

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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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Press Releases

31/07/2023

European Sustainability Reporting Standards remain largely unchanged

31/07/2023

Finance Watch statement on EBA EU-wide stress test results

18/07/2023

European Parliament’s Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs Agrees Position on Solvency II

10/07/2023

Research reveals that fear of financial markets impedes EU fiscal reform

28/06/2023

Finance Watch Statement on EU Commission Open Finance and Digital Euro Proposals

28/06/2023

Finance Watch Statement on Basel 3 Trilogue

13/06/2023

Finance Watch Statement on New EU Commission Sustainable Finance Package

01/06/2023

Finance Watch reacts to European Parliament plenary vote on CSDDD

Press Coverage

31/05/2023 Table Media

‘In the ESG rating process, apples and oranges are added together’

06/04/2023 Euractiv

Make banks safe again

23/03/2023 Newstalk

Big banking needs to be governed by stricter rules

21/03/2023 B Smart

Crise bancaire, les premières leçons

07/10/2022 The Financial Times

Why Europe’s green drive is making waves in Kuala Lumpur

05/10/2022 Euractiv

Große EU-Banken halten massiv klimaschädliche Kredite

04/10/2022 El Independiente

La elevada exposición de la banca a combustibles fósiles amenaza con una crisis como la de Lehman Brothers

04/10/2022 Le Journal de Dimanche

Finance mondiale : « Les banques sous-estiment le risque posé par le réchauffement climatique »

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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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