SAFE Finance Blog

Thomas Huertas: Some simple steps on how to prevent the coronavirus pandemic from causing a financial crisis

Ignazio Angeloni: The ruling on the European Central Bank’s quantitative easing appears to open up an irremediable conflict at the heart of the euro area, with potentially fatal consequences for the currency and its central bank. It may turn out differently

European initiative towards sustainable finance, new standards for the assessment of market risk, and guidelines on fees in investment funds: a selection of financial regulatory developments from this month

Thomas F. Huertas: How banks can help get money to businesses while it can still do some good

Ignazio Angeloni: The return to normality after the coronavirus pandemic requires, among other things, that banks be saved, and this will not happen unless regulation is adapted and more public support is provided

New rules on reporting of institutions under CRR, current developments in EU sustainable finance regulation and transfer of financial investment advisor supervision in Germany: a selection of financial regulatory developments from this month

Targeted and coordinated European measures needed to prevent a new banking crisis

Jan Krahnen: Do we need a more expansive fiscal policy in Germany and Europe? The European IGM Economic Experts Panel comes to remarkable results

Ignazio Angeloni: According to some, the ECB can learn from the Fed on how to deal with dissent. The US system, however, is not a reference Europe can easily conform to

Jan Krahnen: Loud is the criticism awarding the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany to Mario Draghi, who is said to have harmed the German saver. The opposite is true

Julia Kapraun: It was about time for the German Finance Agency to announce the first federal Green Bond. However, the new bond has some debatable features

Alexander Ludwig: The ECB has reached a limit with its monetary policy. Other policy responses are needed: an expansion of fiscal measures for more investment in infrastructure and education