SAFE Finance Blog

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

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

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

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

In August, the European Commission adopted an EU Capital Markets pandemic recovery package and proposed amendments to the Benchmark Regulation while the European Banking Authority published guidelines on disclosures and reporting

Jan Krahnen: Germany's 2020 EU Council Presidency is an opportunity for sustainable development towards a political union regarding capital market, banks and the budget

Updated rules for non-EU clearing houses, guidelines on loan origination and monitoring in the EU and amendments to prudent valuation to mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic: A selection of financial regulatory developments from this month

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