SAFE Finance Blog

In July, the Capital Requirements Regulation were amended, through the so called CRR quick fix, and the European Central Bank as well as the European Securities and Markets Authority issued new guidelines

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

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

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

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

In a new SAFE White Paper, Martin R. Götz, Tobias H. Tröger, and Mark Wahrenburg analyze the supervisory challenges ahead for banking regulation in Europe

Matthias Goldmann: The European Court of Justice’s verdict on the bond purchases of the European Central Bank (ECB) shows the rationalizing effect of legal discourses

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

Jan Pieter Krahnen: Financial institutions doing business in Europe would be better for the banking union and financial stability than nationally oriented banks

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

Jens Gal and Helmut Gründl: Time for an integrated European insurance supervision has not yet come. However, the course has already been set

Helmut Gründl pleas for a single integrated European Supervisory Authority