SAFE Finance Blog

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

New initiatives for sustainable finance, amended rules to harmonize the provision of financial information and recent proposals to trading obligations under MiFIR: a selection of financial regulatory developments from this month

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

Revised regulation in the Capital Markets Union for market risk and treatment of over-the-counter derivatives, and new rules in Germany regarding clearing counterparties: a selection of financial regulatory developments from this month

Germany has the second-lowest share of homeowners of all OECD countries. This is driven by housing policies that produce incentives to rent. New studies show that alternative policies could increase the homeownership rate and reduce wealth inequality

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

The ECB’s plan to include climate change in its models, political agreement on the Taxonomy Regulation, and other topics: a selection of financial regulatory developments from this month

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.

German proposal for a common European deposit insurance, new rules for investment firms and covered bonds, and new EU legal framework on Sustainable Finance: a selection of financial regulatory developments from this month