Policy Briefs

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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

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Author(s): 
Judith Arnal, Apostolos Thomadakis

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

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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.

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Author(s): 
Karel Lannoo, Fredrik Andersson

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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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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