Two years after the London G-20, CEPS Chief Executive Karel Lannoo finds that the EU is well advanced in delivering on the commitments made for the 2013 target date. Important steps have been taken on the institutional side, and regulatory changes are moving ahead. On some issues, in fact, such...

Given the size of the financial markets on both sides of the Atlantic and the symmetry in the follow-up of the G-20 standards, Karel Lannoo argues in this Policy Brief that the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) provides a good opportunity to put in place a more...

The European Council meeting of June charged the European Commission with responsibility for drafting “by early autumn 2009 at the latest” the proposals to implement a new framework for EU financial supervision, as called for by the de Larosière Committee. This new Policy Brief by CEPS...

This CEPS Policy Brief is a collective work by a group of CEPS researchers aimed at providing an action plan for the next European Commission. Priorities have been set in four selected policy fields where concrete action is needed immediately: reform of financial sector regulation and oversight,...

The financial crisis has sharpened the debate on Europe's back office architecture. This paper reviews the ECB's decision to proceed with its Target 2 Securities (T2S) project, which aims to establish a common IT platform for securities settlement, reducing differences between current...

The biggest opportunities and threats in finance these days come from the cyber-sphere. Fintech firms (fintechs) have made big inroads in financial intermediation, and some new companies are valued more than large banks. Blockchain and robo-advice are expected to revolutionise the ways banks...

In this contribution, Sergio Carrera, Karel Lannoo, Marco Stefan and Lina Vosyliūtė explore how recent moves of some EU governments are in contradiction with the terms of long-standing commitments.The United Nations (UN) Global Compact on Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration provides a...

Implementing the framework for cross-border bank resolution in the EU is a work in progress, but it is not necessarily proceeding in a consistent way. Three banks were recently resolved in the EU, in which the rules were applied in a different way in each case. These varying results suggest that...

Now is time to take stock of the G-20. Just over five years ago, during the free fall of the global financial crisis, representatives from 20 of the world's leading economies agreed to gather twice a year in order to develop a more sustainable regulatory framework for financial institutions. In...

This paper, the third in a series for a CEPS project on the ‘The British Question', is pegged on an ambitious exercise by the British government to review all the competences of the European Union on the basis of evidence submitted by independent stakeholders. The reviews considered in this...