Finance Watch

Making finance serve society | Finance Watch is an independent non-profit association dedicated to reforming finance in the interest of citizens.

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🌱 Greener pensions
💶 Keeping cash alive
💳 A digital euro
🏦 Transparent banks

... kinda chic, if you ask us!

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🎯 Why it matters: when climate risks are underestimated, the costs can reach households, businesses and the wider economy. Financial rules help ensure the system is better prepared to prevent shocks from becoming crises.

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📑 EU financial rules in 2026: climate risk

Climate change is not only an environmental issue. It's also a financial stability issue.

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💼 As part of its efforts to help prepare the financial system for future risks and structural change, Finance Watch published “Towards a climate-resilient banking sector”, proposing a tool to strengthen banks’ resilience to climate-related shocks.

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Climate disasters are making more homes & businesses uninsurable. Now, costs are shifted onto households & taxpayers.

Breaking this cycle of insurability requires coordinated environmental, prudential, and fiscal reforms.

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New #euros on the way 💶✨

Cash is universal & available to all. But in the digital age, protecting cash isn’t enough. Now, most day-to-day payments in the EU are made without cash.

That's why we advocate for universal access to cash & its digital equivalent, the #digitaleuro.

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🎯 Why it matters: digital payments should serve people and the public interest.

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The European Parliament has adopted its position on the digital euro.

💼 Finance Watch has advocated for free basic use, wide acceptance, easy access and stronger privacy protections.

These issues are now part of the debate ahead of trilogue negotiations.

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📢 We’re hiring a Grants Administration Intern in Brussels!

Want to help finance serve society and the planet? Join Finance Watch and support our Operations & Projects team.

💼 Learn more & apply 👉 https://t.co/SlIoH9n5ry

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📢 #JobAlert: We're hiring a (Senior) Research & Advocacy Officer – Public Finance!

Work on EU fiscal rules, debt sustainability, climate risks, policy research and advocacy. Join us in 📍 Brussels to make finance serve society.

Apply now 🔗 https://t.co/g7MTMmzdhA

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📢 We’re hiring a Head of Operations & Finance in Brussels.
Oversee finance, HR, grants, governance, compliance, IT, internal operations. Send your CV & motivation letter to 📩[email protected]. Subject: Head of Operations & Finance - Vacancy 👉https://t.co/Jzuv6OSBO5

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🚨Traditional risk models are leaving the financial system driving blind.

In our new report, Finance Watch proposes a science-based macroprudential buffer to protect banks from climate chaos and radical uncertainty.

Read the full report: https://t.co/klaXmYEiHW
#safetransition

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If only financial crises came with #heatwave alerts... 🥵

Extreme weather disrupts businesses, damages infrastructure, drives up insurance losses and puts pressure on the economy. The climate is changing. So should financial regulation!

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Last month, a small win: member states can spend an extra 0.3% GDP on an ‘energy buffer’.

It shows that:
🩵 If Europe can find fiscal space for #defence, it can do so for energy security, climate resilience, and ending fossil fuel dependence

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Alongside civil society including @triodosuk, @FEBEAethicalfin, & @Germanwatch, we affirm that #simplification must not mean lower capital requirements, weaker buffers or a rollback of the safeguards introduced after the 2008 financial crisis.

Read the letter 👇

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A historic step for Europe! 🇪🇺 💶

The @Europarl_EN backed the #DigitalEuro, bringing public money into the digital age & reducing Europe’s dependence on foreign payment giants.

That makes Europe’s payments more inclusive, sovereign & resilient.

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🎉 Thank you to everyone who joined us for #FWConference2026!

15 years after Finance Watch was founded in the wake of 2008, the conversations in Brussels demonstrated that the need for robust, forward-looking financial regulation remains as important as ever.

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Albuquerque noted that EU banks stand in competition with the US, but warns against blindly following the US regulatory agenda:

"We should look at our own capacity to compete (...) but it does not mean that we will follow the US in the race to the bottom."

#FWConference2026

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Our secretary general @ibuscke joined commissioner for financial services and the savings & investments union Maria Luís Albuquerque for a fireside chat during the #FWConference2026 at the national bank of Belgium.

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"The financial sector does not exist for its own sake. It exists to be an intermediary - between those who have money and those who need money."

- Maria Luís Albuquerque at the #FWConference2026