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💶 How can Europe turn household savings into investment?

Our latest #FBFblog explores the EU’s Savings and Investment Accounts (SIAs), their potential to benefit citizens and European businesses, and the challenges of making them accessible and attractive

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#SIULab
September 21, 2026 at 10:49 AM
💶 Can auto-enrolment help close Europe’s pension adequacy gap?

In our latest #FBFblog, our RF Vanessa Endrejat explores whether auto-enrolment could help address Europe’s pension adequacy challenge, by encouraging more people to build long-term retirement savings.

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September 7, 2026 at 10:41 AM
💰 Can pensions help drive Europe's Savings and Investments Union?

Our latest #FBFblog by Cathal Coffey explores how pension reforms across Europe could unlock long-term investment, deepen capital markets, and shape the future of the SIU.

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#SIU #Pensions
July 20, 2026 at 10:27 AM
Can wholesale funding markets expand access to finance for women entrepreneurs?

Our latest #FBFblog by Samir Kiuhan explores how funding structures shape financial inclusion, the trade-offs between sustainability and social impact, and why better data are needed.

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July 13, 2026 at 9:47 AM
Only two EU countries require #FinancialEducation in primary school.

Our latest #FBFblog by Eliana Canavesio explores why Europe may be starting too late to build the #FinancialLiteracy needed for future economic resilience.

📚 Full article: fbf.eui.eu/mandating-to...
July 6, 2026 at 10:06 AM
Strong institutions don't just support democracy; they also strengthen public finances.

Our latest #FBFblog by Aleksei Kiselev explores why institutional quality matters for sovereign risk and borrowing costs.

Full read: fbf.eui.eu/why-institut...
July 1, 2026 at 10:53 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.

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June 22, 2026 at 11:15 AM
🏦 Can Europe build banking champions while continuing to protect national banks?

In our latest #FBFblog, Research Associate Jonathan Fernández Soto explores one of the key contradictions at the heart of the Banking Union.

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June 8, 2026 at 11:18 AM
🌍📉 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.

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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
🌍📉 Do credit rating agencies really capture climate risk?

Read our latest #FBFblog by Jean Monnet Fellow Marcin Borsuk on how floods, wildfires, and carbon exposure are reshaping credit risk assessments. and whether ratings agencies are keeping pace with climate reality.

fbf.eui.eu/do-credit-ra...
May 11, 2026 at 11:35 AM
💡🏡 Energy efficiency is a “no-regret” investment, so why is it still underfinanced?

New #FBFblog by Pierre Schlosser explores the financeability gap and the role of green securitisation in scaling up investment.

📚 Full article [6 min read]: fbf.eui.eu/energy-effic...
April 27, 2026 at 10:28 AM
💡 Is public #VentureCapital in Europe here to stay?

In our latest #FBFblog, Lorenzo Moretti argues that Europe’s reliance on state-backed VC reflects a deeper issue: the lack of funded pension capital.

📚 Full article [6 min read]: fbf.eui.eu/pay-as-you-g...
April 13, 2026 at 10:44 AM
🤖💼 Is AI in finance making better decisions… or just less accountable ones?

In our latest #FBFblog, Research Associate Daria Vernon De Mars explores a growing blind spot in AI-driven financial security: legitimacy.

📚 Full article [6 min read]: fbf.eui.eu/the-legitima...
April 9, 2026 at 10:02 AM
💶🔐 Is the #DigitalEuro really “a solution in search of a problem”, or are we asking the wrong question?

In our latest #FBFblog, Nicola Bilotta explores why control over payment infrastructure matters more than ever.

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April 1, 2026 at 10:53 AM
💶📈 The EU’s Savings and Investments Union (SIU) is an ambitious project, but the debate is starting to converge around clearer priorities.

In our latest #FBFblog, Pierre Schlosser and Cathal Coffey explore the key building blocks shaping the SIU agenda.

Full read: fbf.eui.eu/the-savings-...
March 16, 2026 at 11:43 AM
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.

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March 2, 2026 at 11:33 AM
Ambition (and some missing links) in Europe’s market integration push.

Calls for a paradigm shift in EU capital markets are back. In our latest #FBFblog, Claudio Coen unpacks the European Commission’s Market Integration Package.

📚 Read in 8 min: fbf.eui.eu/ambition-and...
February 23, 2026 at 11:50 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
🛡️💻 Under #DORA, ICT risk is no longer an IT issue — it’s a boardroom responsibility.

Our latest #FBFblog by Leonardo Giani explains why digital operational resilience now starts at the top.

📚 Read (6 min): fbf.eui.eu/digital-oper...
February 3, 2026 at 10:41 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
💶📲 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
👀🏛️ 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
👀 🖥️ #SupTech is transforming financial supervision, but adoption remains uneven.

Our latest #FBFblog by Nico Lauridsen & Samir Kiuhan-Vásquez, shows that strategy, structure & tech must work together to move from pilots to full deployment.

📚 Full article: fbf.eui.eu/making-supte...
December 11, 2025 at 11:57 AM
🌐 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.

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December 8, 2025 at 11:19 AM