SAFE Finance Blog

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

The reform of the ESM turned out to be one of the main political issues in Italy at the end of this year, to the point of posing an existential threat to the sitting government. However, a well-functioning ESM is of vital interest in particular to countries like Italy.

In a new SAFE Policy Letter, Maik Schmeling analyzes the planned digital currency of Facebook

Jan Krahnen: Italy's thoughts on new bonds are a cause for concern for the euro area. However, in the end, the country would do itself harm

A pan-European pension product and new rules for investment funds, reforms in the Banking Union and guidelines on sustainable finance: a selection of regulatory developments from this month