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

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

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

Jan Krahnen: One reason for criticizing Friedrich Merz is his work in the financial industry. This is unfair because more exchange between business and politics is needed

Jan Pieter Krahnen: The tendency for loose financial regulation in the US is alarming. Europe should not follow

Reinhard H. Schmidt explains why the German model should not be called into question

Tobias Tröger: German policy makers do not live up to the new challenges

The regulatory setting for bail-in does not ensure private liability and market stability at the same time

Tobias Tröger: The BRRD will not reach its policy objective

Jan Krahnen calls for further restructuring of banks and more determined liability rules

Jan Krahnen: A withdrawal from a stability-oriented policy in the U.S. would endanger the regulatory debate in the EU

The Brexit decision opens up new opportunities to further develop the banking and capital markets union. An opinion by Jan Krahnen