31/07/2020 Banking Public hearing Hearing at the Bundestag on the finalisation of the Basel III framework Covid-19 looks set to become the banking sector’s most powerful argument yet to demand a wholesale roll-back of the Basel III framework. In a petition to the German Bundestag, MPs...
17/07/2020 Sustainable finance Consultation response Response to the consultation on the Renewed Sustainable Finance Strategy Finance Watch responded to the 100+ questions of the European Commission consultation on the Renewed Sustainable Finance Strategy
16/07/2020 FinTech Consultation response Finance Watch response to the FSB’s public consultation on “global stablecoins” Finance Watch published today its responses to the Financial Stability Board’s consultation on addressing the regulatory, supervisory and oversight challenges raised by “global stablecoin” arrangements
13/07/2020 Sustainable finance Policy brief Policy brief: Debt sustainability and a sustainable COVID recovery Overcoming the dilemma between debt and environmental sustainability in the discussions over a post Covid-19 recovery package
07/07/2020 Retail & financial inclusion Report Report “Basic Financial Services” Finance Watch released a report which identifies a shortlist of basic financial products and services that should be made available to all European citizens to help combat financial and social...
12/06/2020 Sustainable finance Consultation response Consultation response on the revision of the non-financial reporting directive (NFRD) Finance Watch publishes its responses to the public consultation on the revision of the non-financial reporting directive (NFRD).
08/06/2020 Banking Report Report – Breaking the climate-finance doom loop On 8 June 2020, Finance Watch published a report to show how banking prudential regulation can tackle the link between climate change and financial instability.
04/05/2020 Sustainable finance Report Report “Nature’s Return” on integrating economic and environmental governance The cost of the COVID-19 crisis shines a light on the real value of anticipation in policymaking. Without doubt, even this tsunami will be dwarfed by the consequences of the...
25/03/2020 FinTech Consultation response Responses to crypto-assets consultations In March 2020, Finance Watch submitted its responses to two public consultations on crypto-assets held by the European Commission and by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision.
11/03/2020 Retail & financial inclusion Consultation response Feedback on the Roadmap for a Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing Action Plan Brussels, 11/03/2020 – Finance Watch published today its feedback on the European Commission Roadmap for an Action Plan towards a new comprehensive approach to preventing and combating money laundering and...
02/03/2020 Retail & financial inclusion Report Financial Exclusion: Making the invisible visible Brussels, 3 March 2020 – Finance Watch released a report on the increasing range of people in the EU encountering difficulties in accessing financial services. Financialisation and technological developments are...
17/02/2020 Financial supervision Open letter Alliance Letters to EU institutions on the Reform of the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) Together with BEUC, Better Finance, AGE Platform Europe and Coface Families Europe, we sent two letters to the European institutions regarding the Reform of the European Supervisory Authorities.
