Policy & Regulation

What do you think is the impact, if any, of social mobilizations to policy? Does your organisation consider the popularity of its recommendations and their social impact?

54 views December 21, 2018 0

Nobody knows the size of the derivatives market; why is that? Many experts estimate it to be more than 10 times that of total world gross domestic product; how is that possible? How dangerous is this practically unregulated monster?

28 views November 29, 2018 0

Is the decision making process of your organisation fair to all member-countries?

33 views November 20, 2018 0

Are derivatives still allowed as speculative instruments rather than risk hedging instruments (so not tied to an actual loan to manage the long-term risk)? If so, why?

31 views November 20, 2018 0

Any news on the Basic European Income?

39 views November 20, 2018 0

Why is any of the risk of finance backed by low to medium income people’s banking?

26 views November 20, 2018 0

Why has the ECB agreed that the Financial Stability Board drop the term shadow banking, when Eurosystem governors are still concerned with the systemic risks?

19 views November 20, 2018 0

What do trading algorithms do? How are they regulated?

35 views November 20, 2018 0

The more credit derivatives a bank sells as a protection provider (especially credit default swaps) the more likely it is that the institution will be rescued by state in case of emergency. Thus even institutes that are not too big to fail get assisted by rescue measures when they are too interconnected to fail. Why is that?

23 views November 20, 2018 0

How is Bitcoin regulated?

16 views November 9, 2018 0

Why are companies like Airbnb allowed to neglect and avoid national/local law by having their registered office in a different EU-country?

33 views November 9, 2018 0

How is the new centralized structure of the Derivatives Market ‘Hub and Spoke’ model less risky at the systemic level? And who finances and manages the central hub? How about the moral hazard problem?

31 views November 9, 2018 0

Why are interests rates on CDs so low (close to 0) and how are we supposed to keep up with inflation and have an actual motive to deposit our money in a bank?

22 views November 9, 2018 0

Is financial privacy dead?

12 views November 9, 2018 0