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Karel Lannoo

This paper starts with a bird’s eye view of retail financial markets in the EU today and their degree of integration.

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Filipa Figueira

The European Commission has recently taken several initiatives to increase the financial capability of EU consumers.

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Pauli Lepistö, Marc Rothemund, Nicola Jentzsch

Two years of intensive negotiations have ended with the adoption of the Payment Services Directive by the European Parliament in the first reading, and the proposed legislation is due to be adopted shortly by the EU Council.

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Marc Rothemund, Maria Gerhardt

Credit referencing occurs in many countries of the world with a primary purpose of collecting and providing information to help lenders make better decisions.

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Nicola Jentzsch, Christian Wey

This report brings together in a single volume the excellent contributions presented at the high-level conference on “The Future of Retail Banking in Europe: Competition and Regulatory Challenges” held at CEPS on the 10th of June 2009.

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Caterina Giannetti, Nicola Jentzsch, Giancarlo Spagnolo

Information asymmetries can severely limit the cross-border border expansion of banks, if entering banks can only obtain incomplete information about potential new clients. Such asymmetries are reduced by credit registers, which distribute financial data on bank clients.

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Jürgen Bott

When it was originally proposed, the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) was hailed for its potential to contribute significantly to making Europe the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-driven economy by 2010.

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Maria Chiara Malaguti

The Payment Services Directive (PSD) was published in late 2007, constituting the legal basis for the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA). The industry initiative launched on 28 January 2008 aims at replacing fragmented national markets for payment services with one integrated system.

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Daniel Kaltofen, Stephan Paul, Stefan Stein

The key concept underlying the Basel II framework for risk measurement and corresponding equity capital standards is that the existing regulations pertaining to credit risk will be individualised through reference to the internal ratings of banks.

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