Policy Briefs

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Karel Lannoo, Maria Gerhardt

With the financial crisis, citizens suddenly realized that different levels and forms of depositor protection co-existed in the EU, whereas they had been told for almost 20 years that a single market was in place. Current deposit insurance arrangements in Europe need to be changed, as they match neither market integration nor consumer expectations.

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Karel Lannoo

This paper starts with a bird’s eye view of retail financial markets in the EU today and their degree of integration.

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Filipa Figueira

The European Commission has recently taken several initiatives to increase the financial capability of EU consumers.

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Author(s): 
Pauli Lepistö, Marc Rothemund, Nicola Jentzsch

Two years of intensive negotiations have ended with the adoption of the Payment Services Directive by the European Parliament in the first reading, and the proposed legislation is due to be adopted shortly by the EU Council.

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