Financial stability

While Greens and leftists disagree on the finer points, policymakers are tightening the regulatory screws.

The central bank expects a sharp slowdown in growth later this year, on the back of high energy prices.

The financial-services agenda is languishing, with no single country stepping in to fill the UK’s shoes.

The measure would kill innovation in Europe and drive technology to the US, Ledger CEO Pascal Gauthier warns.

Current tax treatment of crypto assets is ‘minimal,’ according to Fabio Panetta.

Estonia clamped down on crypto. Now its Baltic neighbors are following suit to protect their economies from dirty money.

The huge lobbying push comes after the European Commission included new restrictions in its banking package.

Jon Cunliffe is watching markets as the war in Ukraine rages and the economy reels from inflation.

Pascal Gauthier accuses some MEPs of waging a war against Bitcoin.

Inflation is still expected to ‘fade away,’ says Philip Lane.

At issue is crypto’s existential question: Is it an asset or is it money?

Inflation in the U.K. is likely to reach, and even exceed, 8 percent in the coming months.

Watchdogs say ‘consumers face the very real possibility of losing all their invested money if they buy these assets.’

Left-leaning MEPs had pushed to phase carbon-intensive blockchains out of the crypto market.

Watchdogs aim to make Tallinn inhospitable for illicit financiers.

Central bank’s policymaking committee to meet in the shadow of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Officials have played down the risk of oligarchs using the crypto market to move their money around.

While the EU steers toward more fiscal laissez-faire in the midst of war in Ukraine, the Dutch swim against the tide.

She’s neither hawk or dove, Sigrid Kaag told POLITICO. But she remains Dutch.

Cryptocurrencies may seem like a good tool for evading sanctions, but it’s a workaround littered with booby traps.

‘Clearly banks which have Russian ownership are under stress,’ the regulator said.

The Austria-based European subsidiary of Russia’s biggest bank, Sberbank, will be wound up following the resolution and sale of its Croatian and Slovenian businesses, the EU’s resolution …

The EU has been reluctant to remove Russian banks from SWIFT due to the bloc’s dependence on oil and gas from Russia.

An ECB poll shows wide national disparities in how Europeans view the central bank.