December 15, 2023
The Experience of Free Banking outlines a monetary system where private banks issue competing banknotes, usually anchored to a commodity like gold or silver, replacing the central bank’s role.
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February 25, 2020
Over the past month, six eurozone banks have dropped below the European Central Bank’s (ECB) capital requirements.
August 2, 2017
The fear that the UK-based financial industry will not be able to fully conduct all its current post-Brexit pan-European operations has prompted several London-based institutions to make plans to move some jobs to the continent or to Ireland.
July 1, 2016
The conventional account of the Eurozone crisis is one of reckless bankers lending to households and governments far beyond their ability to face those debts.
June 16, 2016
As of 9 June 2016, the new European rules on inter-bank commission fees for card-based payment transactions were fully enforced.
February 16, 2016
One of the main objectives of post-crisis financial regulation has been the severing of the nexus between large banks and national sovereigns, such that private losses do not lead to taxpayer bailouts.
November 11, 2015
Martin Wolf meditates on the possible causes of substandard growth performance by many European economies in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis.