The legislative results of the Commission’s Sustainable Finance Initiative will play an increasingly important role on investment decisions in the energy sector. The Taxonomy Regulation, adopted last June, provides that investment funds and large EU companies must disclose information on their a...
This Advanced Technology Watch report has been developed in the framework of the ‘Advanced Technologies for Industry’ (ATI) project, initiated by the European Commission, Directorate General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs and the European Innovation Council and Small an...
How much of the heterogeneity in bank loan pricing is explained by disparities in banks’ attitude towards risk? The answer to this question is not simple because there are only very weak proxies for gauging the degree of a bank’s risk aversion. We handle this constraint by means of a novel econo...
This evaluation provided evidence on whether the current legal framework of Directive 2002/65/EC, on the distance marketing of consumer financial services (DMFSD) is still fit for purpose, via an assessment of its effectiveness, efficiency and simplification and burden reduction, relevance, cohe...
This is the first in a series of regular reports published by the Eurosystem’s Advisory Group on Market Infrastructures for Securities and Collateral (AMI-SeCo) covering the progress in defining, and assessing compliance with, the Single Collateral Management Rulebook for Europe (SCoRE)....
This EPRS publication seeks to provide an analytical overview of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) between the European Union (EU) and the United Kingdom (UK), which was agreed between the two parties on 24 December and signed by them on 30 December 2020, and has been provisionally appli...
In accordance with Article 26(2) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, the internal market is to comprise an area without internal frontiers in which the free movement of goods, persons, services and capital is ensured. The smooth functioning of the internal market and the deve...