SAFE Finance Blog

Updated rules for the ESG disclosures, key information documents for retail and insurance-based investment products, and new standards for the remuneration of investment firms' material "risk-takers"

Thomas Mosk: The discretionary power of national authorities can effectively undermine well-intentioned supranational regulations in practice

After Wirecard and Brexit, the realignment of Germany’s Federal Financial Supervisory Authority can succeed if the authority is set up with the right leadership personality

Ongoing activities on the EU framework on selling NPLs, ECB’s supervisory approach to consolidation in the banking sector, and new reporting standards under the EMIR REFIT

Ignazio Angeloni: The banking union faces regulatory obstacles to its completion – nonetheless there are ways to move the pan-European project forward

Amended framework for securitizations of non-performing loans, proposed adjustments for central counterparties following Brexit, and new guidance on climate-related and environmental risks

Ignazio Angeloni: The European Central Bank must deliver but not send the wrong signals. Overly ambitious inflation targets must be reconsidered, as must hardened strategies in monetary policy

Google searches and trading: The effect of sentiment on individual investment decisions

Ignazio Angeloni: Digital currencies put central banks to the test in their essential function

Revised rules for global systemically important institutions, proposed adjustments for covered bond issuers, and a new guidance on CCP resolution

Ignazio Angeloni: Making America’s economy “great again” will require hard work – and a bit of luck

Jan Krahnen: The ban on dividend payouts by the Eurozone’s supervisory authority is a discretionary action that clouds market expectations with regard to the equity of credit institutions