🤖💼 Is AI in finance making better decisions… or just less accountable ones?
In our latest #FBFblog, Research Associate Daria Vernon De Mars explores a growing blind spot in AI-driven financial security: legitimacy.
📚 Full article [6 min read]: fbf.eui.eu/the-legitima...
💶🔐 Is the #DigitalEuro really “a solution in search of a problem”, or are we asking the wrong question?
In our latest #FBFblog, Nicola Bilotta explores why control over payment infrastructure matters more than ever.
📚 Read more: fbf.eui.eu/the-digital-...
💶📈 The EU’s Savings and Investments Union (SIU) is an ambitious project, but the debate is starting to converge around clearer priorities.
In our latest #FBFblog, Pierre Schlosser and Cathal Coffey explore the key building blocks shaping the SIU agenda.
Full read: fbf.eui.eu/the-savings-...
What are 'safe assets'?
In times of uncertainty, investors flock to them, but what actually makes an asset safe?
In our latest #FBFblog, @alyosha-kiselev.bsky.social explores the politics and the risks behind safe assets, and asks whether a new one could emerge.
📚 Read: fbf.eui.eu/what-are-saf...
Ambition (and some missing links) in Europe’s market integration push.
Calls for a paradigm shift in EU capital markets are back. In our latest #FBFblog, Claudio Coen unpacks the European Commission’s Market Integration Package.
📚 Read in 8 min: fbf.eui.eu/ambition-and...
“Regulatory simplification” has become one of the EU’s most powerful policy buzzwords, but what does it actually mean, and who benefits?
Read our latest #FBFblog written by María del Carmen Sandoval Velasco.
📚 [read in 7 min]: fbf.eui.eu/what-is-behi...
🛡️💻 Under #DORA, ICT risk is no longer an IT issue — it’s a boardroom responsibility.
Our latest #FBFblog by Leonardo Giani explains why digital operational resilience now starts at the top.
📚 Read (6 min): fbf.eui.eu/digital-oper...
🏗️🌱 Can banks really power Europe’s building renovation wave?
New #FBFblog by Gábor Gyura looks at EU banks’ sustainability disclosures — and finds limited progress, major data gaps, and regulatory hurdles holding renovation finance back.
📖 Read (6 min): fbf.eui.eu/what-do-bank...
💶📲 Since 2020, the #DigitalEuro has evolved into one of the EU’s most politically charged monetary projects.
In our latest #FBFblog, Pierre Schlosser unpacks why debates over why, how and who decides remain deeply contested.
📚 Read in 6 min 👉 fbf.eui.eu/the-bumpy-ro...
👀🏛️ The Peruvian paradox
New #FBFblog by @lperezobregon.bsky.social & @denisserolivari.bsky.social explores how institutional independence, pragmatic policy, and leadership helped Peru’s central bank endure political volatility.
fbf.eui.eu/the-peruvian...
👀 🖥️ #SupTech is transforming financial supervision, but adoption remains uneven.
Our latest #FBFblog by Nico Lauridsen & Samir Kiuhan-Vásquez, shows that strategy, structure & tech must work together to move from pilots to full deployment.
📚 Full article: fbf.eui.eu/making-supte...
🌐 How can Europe invest in innovation without distorting markets?
Our new #FBFblog by Lorenzo Moretti explores 3 government #VentureCapital models shaping the EU’s tech future.
fbf.eui.eu/venturing-fo...
🌱 Is the EU recalibrating its sustainable finance agenda — or quietly reversing course?
In our latest #FBFblog, Research Fellow Valerio Novembre and Research Associate Elena Sedano Varo unpack what is really at stake.
📚 Full article [6 min read]: fbf.eui.eu/recalibratio...
💶 As digital payments reshape our economies, #CBDCs are emerging as one of the most debated innovations in public finance.
Are they the next evolution of money — or a source of new political, legal and geopolitical tensions?
Read our latest #FBFblog by Andrew Whitworth 👇
fbf.eui.eu/interdiscipl...
💸 Are #stablecoins the future of finance — or the next source of financial fragility?
In our latest #FBFblog, Director @tl-beck.bsky.social explores how stablecoins blur the line between innovation and instability, and why Europe should stay cautious.
Full article: fbf.eui.eu/stablecoins-...
💸🌿 Sovereign sustainability-linked bonds promised to tie debt to sustainability results. But are they real progress or green rhetoric?
Our latest #FBFblog explores the promise and pitfalls 👇
fbf.eui.eu/the-importan...
💶 When currencies swing, banks move — and so does the real economy.
In a new #FBFblog, @tl-beck.bsky.social explores how the 2014 euro depreciation affected bank lending and regional growth — and what it means for today’s volatility.
📖 Read more: fbf.eui.eu/exchange-rat...
#ExchangeRates
🤖💸 What if the real breakthrough for #stablecoins isn’t human, but machine?
In our latest #FBFblog, Hugo Bourrousse argues that agentic #AI will need programmable, secure payment rails — and stablecoins could be the answer.
Could AI wallets be the future of money?
📚 fbf.eui.eu/the-future-o...
🌐💱 Can fragmented digital asset regulation undermine the global financial system it seeks to enhance?
In our latest #FBFblog, Nikolas Passos & Nicola Bilotta unpack diverging strategies across the US, China & EU—and why coordination matters more than ever.
Full read 👉 fbf.eui.eu/digital-asse...
What does it really mean to be financially included? 💳📱
In our latest #FBFblog, Dir. @tl-beck.bsky.social explores how access, usage & literacy together define real financial inclusion.
📖 Read: fbf.eui.eu/financial-in...
#FinancialInclusion #FinancialLiteracy
Can tokenisation and DLT help complete the EU's Capital Markets Union?
In our latest #FBFblog, Cathal Coffey & Andrew Whitworth argue it's time for the EU to act, or risk becoming a rule-taker in global #digitalfinance.
Read more 👉 fbf.eui.eu/digitalising...
#CMU #DLT #Tokenisation
🌿 What does nature loss mean for financial stability?
Central banks are starting to connect the dots between ecosystem decline and credit, market & operational risks.
New #FBFblog by María del Carmen Sandoval Velasco 👉 fbf.eui.eu/nature-loss-...
📉 Is the US starting to look like a submerging market?
New #FBFblog by @alyosha-kiselev.bsky.social explores how institutional erosion is undermining investor confidence, and what it means for global economic stability.
Full article: fbf.eui.eu/a-broader-pe...
🌱🧼 What does greenwashing have to do with financial literacy?
Only 18% of EU citizens have high financial literacy — a problem for a system built on complex ESG disclosures.
New #FBFblog by Eliana Canavesio & Pierre Schlosser 👉 fbf.eui.eu/the-greenwas...
🧭 Is regulatory arbitrage always harmful?
In our latest #FBFblog, Dir. @tl-beck.bsky.social explores how shifting risks across borders might ease credit constraints in underserved markets, revealing a possible bright side to this controversial practice.
Full read: fbf.eui.eu/is-there-a-b...
🪙💸 What role do crypto-assets play in US geo-economic strategy?
In our latest #FBFblog, Nicola Bilotta & Erwin Voloder explore how Trump’s digital asset playbook reflects a neo-mercantilist turn in US financial policy.
📚 Full article fbf.eui.eu/de-construct...
#DigitalFinance #Crypto #Stablecoins
🏦💥 Can banks be safely global if their crises are resolved locally?
Multinational banks function as integrated systems, yet are treated as separate legal entities — creating major challenges in cross-border crises.
Read our latest #FBFblog by @lperezobregon.bsky.social
fbf.eui.eu/thriving-tog...
💰📉 Can the countercyclical buffer (#CCyB) better prepare banks for crises?
In our latest #FBFblog, @tl-beck.bsky.social explores:
🔹 Why a 'positive neutral' CCyB could boost financial resilience
🔹 How 17 EEA jurisdictions are adopting this approach
📚 Full article: fbf.eui.eu/making-the-c...
💻💰 Digital finance: a new frontier in global power struggles?
In our latest #FBFblog by Lorenzo Moretti & Nikolas Passos:
🔹 Big Tech & digital sovereignty
🔹 AI supremacy in finance
🔹 CBDCs & the fight for monetary dominance
What does this mean for global stability?
📖 fbf.eui.eu/the-geopolit...
💡📊 Data are a girl’s best friend - but are we using them to close the financial gender gap?
Despite progress, 740M women are still unbanked & female-led businesses face a $1.7T financing gap. Sex-disaggregated data could uncover solutions.
📚 #FBFblog by Eliana Canavesio: fbf.eui.eu/data-are-a-g...
