Policy Briefs

06May
2024

Over-indebtedness in a high inflation and high interest rate landscape

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Author(s): 
Fredrik Andersson, Beatriz Pozo Pérez

Households have experienced varying credit conditions over the past few years. The Russian invasion of Ukraine created much market uncertainty and during the course of the year, energy prices surge

02May
2024

Ten years of the SSM: The past, present and future of banking supervision in the Banking Union

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Author(s): 
Judith Arnal, Apostolos Thomadakis

European banking supervision will have been operational for ten years come November 2024.

04Apr
2024

A radiography of crypto-assets and their risks

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Author(s): 
Fredrik Andersson, Judith Arnal

Public awareness of crypto-assets has increased but there is still room for improvement in understanding.

03Aug
2023

New EU rules for consumer credit markets

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Author(s): 
Karel Lannoo, Fredrik Andersson

Consumer credit is more prevalent in European countries than is often assumed.

24Feb
2022

The EU is homing in on dirty money

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Author(s): 
Karel Lannoo

The EU is getting serious in the fight against dirty money. It is currently grappling with a huge legislative package in the domain of anti-money laundering (AML), a package that includes four proposals overall

05Sep
2018

Consumer Credit, Digitalisation and Behavioural Economics: Are new protection rules needed?

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Author(s): 
Janna Ayoub

In 2008, the Consumer Credit Directive (CCD) was significantly changed by adopting a targeted harmonisation approach that aimed at standardising information disclosure duties and imposing similar r

06Dec
2013

Transaction Banking: Respecting its role in the real economy

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Author(s): 
Ales Chmelar

This paper sketches the main features and issues related to recent market developments in global transaction banking (GTB), particularly in trade finance, cash management and correspondent banking. It describes the basic functioning of the GTB, its interaction with global financial markets and re-lated implications of global regulatory developments such as Basel III.

18Feb
2013

Collateral and Credit Rationing: The role of collateral in explaining and remediating the limited flow of credit to households and SMEs

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Author(s): 
Frederic Helsen, Ales Chmelar

European-wide data concerning both companies and households indicate that the credit rationing phenomenon, which has been predicted by theory, does in fact occur to a significant degree in the Euro

07Nov
2011

Review of the Payment Services Directive: The question of surcharges

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Author(s): 
Elina Pyykko

The Payment Services Directive was intended to provide more price transparency for users and a level playing field for efficient competition among different payment services by decreasing the inhibiting effects of different legislation, cross-subsidisation and non-cost-based pricing.

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