Deregulation of equity, bonds and derivatives markets has undermined the primary objective of financial markets: to channel savings and capital to the most promising economic developments, while managing risk adequately.
This new Finance Watch publication explains in simple words what this new initiative from the European Commission is about, it assesses in Finance Watch’s view its possible impact on growth and on the risk of future crises and explains why taxpayers and citizens should be interested.
(This report is also available in French, Polish and Italian. It will be translated into further languages in the following weeks.)
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