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Open Letter on EU Banking Regulation

We ask President Ursula Von Der Leyen for simplification without weakening resilience

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We, the undersigned banks, civil society organisations, and financial regulation experts, are writing to share our priorities on banking regulation in the context of the European Commission’s assessment of the competitiveness of the EU banking sector. Our message is that simplification should improve efficiency and reduce unnecessary complexity, but it must not weaken prudential safeguards, capital strength, or the resilience of Europe’s banking system. In particular, we ask the Commission to:

  • preserve robust capital requirements,
  • reduce fragmentation in the single market,
  • streamline supervisory reporting,
  • and support a diverse banking sector that can continue to finance the real economy sustainably.

Organizations

  • APS Bank
  • Asufin
  • Banca Popolare Etica
  • Cooperative Bank of Karditsa
  • Ekobanken
  • FEBEA Advocacy Lab
  • Finance Watch
  • Germanwatch
  • GLS Bank
  • Green-Got
  • Hefboom cv
  • Société Financière de La Nef
  • Triodos Bank

 

Individual Signatories

  • Brenda Kramer, Executive Director, Sustainable Finance Lab
  • Clemens Kool, Professor Emeritus of Macroeconomics and International Monetary Economics, Maastricht University
  • Dirk Bezemer, Full Professor, University of Groningen
  • Harald Benink, Professor of Banking & Finance, Tilburg University
  • Irene van Staveren, Professor of Pluralist Development Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam
  • Jézabel Couppey-Soubeyran, Associate Professor & Scientific Advisor, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne & Veblen Institute
  • Jens van ’t Klooster, Associate Professor of Political Economy, University of Amsterdam
  • Jonathan Zeitlin, Professor Emeritus, Visiting Fellow, & Affiliate Professor, University of Amsterdam, European University Institute, & Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies
  • Linda van Goor, Member, Club of Rome
  • Marleen Janssen Groesbeek, Professor Sustainable Finance and Accounting, Avans University of Applied Sciences
  • Martien Lubberink, Associate Professor of Accounting and Capital, Victoria University Wellington
  • Sandrine Dixson-Declève, Executive Chair, Earth4All, and Honorary President, The Club of Rome; Founder & Co-Chair, Systems Transformation Hub, Club of Rome, Earth4All, Systems Transformation Hub
  • Stephany Griffith-Jones, Professor Emeritus of Macroeconomics and International Monetary Economics, Emeritus Professorial Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, Sussex University / Professor of Practice of Sustainable Finance, SOAS, London University / Former Deputy Governor Central Bank of Chile
  • Ulrich Klüh, Professor for Political Economy and Ecology; Speaker of the Directorate, Darmstadt Business School / Center for Sustainable Economic and Corporate Policy (SECP)

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