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🌐 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...
December 8, 2025 at 11:19 AM
💸🌿 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...
October 20, 2025 at 10:11 AM
💡📊 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...
February 24, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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
July 14, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Can #sustainablefinance help scale up nature restoration? 🌿

Our latest #FBFblog by Gábor Gyura examines why nature-positive investments remain difficult to finance, and how biodiversity credits and risk management frameworks could help mobilise private capital.

fbf.eui.eu/scaling-up-n...
June 22, 2026 at 11:15 AM
Can financial markets fund Europe’s defence ambitions?

In our latest #FBFblog, Deputy Director Pierre Schlosser explores how the EU can leverage private investments to build a resilient Defence Union.

📚 Full reading [5 min]: fbf.eui.eu/tapping-fina...
January 13, 2025 at 11:08 AM
🌱🧼 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...
June 2, 2025 at 9:50 AM
🏗️🌱 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...
January 26, 2026 at 11:08 AM
🪙💸 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
May 19, 2025 at 10:50 AM
💰📉 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...
March 24, 2025 at 11:12 AM
💻💰 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...
March 10, 2025 at 11:02 AM
📜⚖️ How have courts shaped the #BankingUnion over the past decade?

In our latest #FBFblog, Thorsten Beck & @christyapetit.bsky.social analyse how rulings by Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) have influenced its legal foundations and accountability.

📚 Read more [5-min]: fbf.eui.eu/how-case-law...
November 25, 2024 at 11:14 AM
👀🏛️ 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...
December 15, 2025 at 10:58 AM
🌿 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-...
June 23, 2025 at 10:31 AM
📉 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...
June 16, 2025 at 10:16 AM
“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...
February 9, 2026 at 11:48 AM
As the #DORA framework takes effect, firms must navigate both compliance demands and practical challenges.

In our latest #FBFblog, Research Associate Daria Vernon De Mars gives a brief recap.

📚 Read the full article [5 min read]: fbf.eui.eu/a-brief-reca...
February 10, 2025 at 1:10 PM
🌍📉 How do geopolitical risks affect financial stability, and how should central banks respond?

In our latest #FBFblog, María del Carmen Sandoval Velasco explores how wars, sanctions, and geopolitical tensions are reshaping inflation, markets, and monetary policy.

fbf.eui.eu/geopolitical...
May 25, 2026 at 12:00 PM
🌱📊 Can regulation make green finance more credible?

In our latest #FBFblog, Research Associate Cristian Foroni explores the first year of the EU Green Bond Standard (EuGBS) and what early market signals reveal.

Full read: fbf.eui.eu/the-eu-green...
May 18, 2026 at 11:16 AM
🌐💱 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...
July 21, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Is Russia's economy truly thriving amidst war and sanctions?

Low unemployment & GDP growth suggest resilience, but reliance on oil, a shadow economy & systemic weaknesses tell a different story.

📚 Read our latest #FBFblog by @alyosha-kiselev.bsky.social & Kevin Shestani fbf.eui.eu/does-russia-...
December 9, 2024 at 10:45 AM
💶 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...
November 28, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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
July 8, 2025 at 12:38 PM
💶📲 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...
January 12, 2026 at 1:41 PM
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...
March 2, 2026 at 11:33 AM