Showing posts with label consumer financial law. Show all posts
Showing posts with label consumer financial law. Show all posts
Thursday, 5 May 2022

Launch of the Financial capability framewok for adults in the EU

›
We have reported earlier on the joint EU/OECD project on developing the Financial competence framework for adults in the European Union . O...
Wednesday, 7 October 2020

The New EU Digital Finance Package: the Digital Finance Strategy

›
In addition to the new Action Plan on Capital Markets Union (see our report  here ),  on the very same day, the 24 September 2020, the EU Co...
Monday, 28 September 2020

Capital Markets Union: the future lies with the better advised consumer-investor

›
On the 24 th of September, the European Commission revealed its new plans for the Capital Markets Union ( here and here ). With the post-c...
Wednesday, 11 September 2019

AG opinion in VKI v TVP Treuhand (C 272/18) - a test case for the Amazon judgment

›
Last week, a seemingly very technical opinion has been delivered in a case concerning the transparency of a choice-of-law clause included...
Tuesday, 24 July 2018

The role of consumers in supporting sustainable finance

›
The EU Commission recently took up the task of joining international efforts (the U N 2030 Agenda and Sustainable Development Goals , and t...
Tuesday, 17 July 2018

Mis-selling of financial products: is there a need for a systematic approach?

›
As we are more and more expected to take control of our financial affairs e.g. to save for our retirement or to take up a mortgage loan to ...
Sunday, 3 June 2018

Is Big Data harmful to our financial well-being?

›
On the 15 of March a Joint Committee of the European Supervisory Authorities - ESAs (consisting of the European Banking Authority-EBA, the ...
Tuesday, 17 April 2018

Addressing financial innovation: the Action Plan on FinTech

›
On 8 March 2018 the EU Commission adopted the FinTech Action Plan : for a more competitive and innovative European financial sector , fol...
Monday, 2 April 2018

An end to high banking transfer charges in the EU?

›
On 28 th March, the EU Commission put forward a Proposal for a Regulation that will reduce charges for bank transfers in the European Uni...
Wednesday, 10 January 2018

The new rules on financial benchmarks: are consumers adequately protected?

›
Starting with 1 January 2018 the new Regulation on indices used as benchmarks in financial instruments and financial contracts or to measur...
Sunday, 5 November 2017

DG FISMA published a report on national responses to the financial crisis

›
Our readers may be interested in the recently published report by DG Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union (FIS...