This article is brought to you in association with the European Parliament. Parliament has struck an informal deal with Council on new rules to help retail clients invest in quality financial products and protect them from misleading or biased information. On Thursday morning, Parliament and Council negotiators agreed on a series of changes to several EU […]Deal on new measures to boost citizens’ investments in financial markets
December 18, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you in association with the European Parliament. Parliament has struck an informal deal with Council on new rules to help retail clients invest in quality financial products and protect them from misleading or biased information. On Thursday morning, Parliament and Council negotiators agreed on a series of changes to several EU […]Women are poised to reshape financial markets —as investors and financial decision-makers
June 10, 2024 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Stephanie Choi, Sustainable and Impact Investing Strategist, Global Wealth Management Chief Inve, UBS, Claudia Ukonu, Growth Lead, UpLink, World Economic Forum, Christine Yu, Co-Founder, Sophia It’s time we reflect on the role women play in shaping financial markets […]How attention to data privacy will stabilize our financial markets
June 1, 2022 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Dominique Shelton Leipzig, Partner, Cybersecurity & Data Privacy practice, Mayer Brown Recent stock market declines have been explained by the impact of COVID-19 and the war in Ukraine, but a key cause has been data privacy.Data privacy has […]Financial markets appear to have rallied. Here’s one way to mitigate further shocks due to COVID-19
June 14, 2020 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Ben Weisman, Project Lead, Financial Innovation, World Economic Forum & Matthew Blake, Head of Shaping the Future of Financial and Monetary Systems, World Economic Forum While fiscal, monetary, and regulatory policy-makers have moved quickly since March to preserve […]Trump after marginalizing G20 attacks Europe and China where it hurts, brandishes currency war
July 4, 2019 by Leave a Comment
Last week’s G20 meeting in Osaka confirmed that the forum’s commonly shared concern about our future on the planet is definitively a thing of the past. Last week, the cacophony at the table of the 20 heads of the largest countries of the world – which first appeared last December in Buenos Aires – became […]Trump-China trade war lingers upsetting global economy and stock markets
June 20, 2018 by Leave a Comment
The trade war between US and China has escalated in the last few days when Trump decided to announce tariffs on Chinese goods worthy of 50 billion dollars. The latter was not left unanswered by Beijing that fought back with similar announcements. However, the trade threats continued with the US warning to impose additional tariffs […]Brexit kick-off: a historic day for the EU anticlockwise
March 29, 2017 by Leave a Comment
The beginning of the two-year negotiations is about to begin as UK submits today the letter to the EU today informing the latter about the decision of the British people to leave the bloc. However, it is still too early to say whether a deal will be reached within the timeframe that is set in […]Trump’s blasting win causes uncertainty and turbulence to the global financial markets
November 11, 2016 by Leave a Comment
So Donald Trump against all odds won the US elections and will become the 45th President of the United States of America. The latter had as a result to cause severe and immediate turbulences to the world’s financial markets which experienced serious losses in the first few hours of the elections. However, Trump’s victory speech that came right after […]Deutsche Bank: the next financial crisis is here and the lenders need €150 billion from taxpayers
July 14, 2016 by 1 Comment
Last Monday David Folkerts-Landau, the chief economist of Deutsche Bank, the ailing largest lender of Germany, in an interview with the prestigious newspaper ‘Die Welt’ stated that European banks must be subsidized with €150 billion in rescue money to recapitalize. Obviously, it will be the taxpayers to once more provide the capital the euro area […]EU revengefully shows no mercy to Cameron by demanding a fast and sloppy Brexit now
June 29, 2016 by Leave a Comment
One of the most historicals EU summits is taking place today in Brussels with 27 instead of 28 member states attending the meeting, leaving Britain and David Cameron out due to the recent decision of the British people to vote in favor of leaving the European Union. The EU referendum has caused severe consequences not only to […]Will the outcome of the UK referendum “calm” the financial markets?
June 22, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Just one day left for both the Remain and Leave campaigners to persuade the undecided Britons to vote in their favor promoting what is best for their country. The world is about to finally find out what will be the outcome of the UK referendum with the reports and polls already showing reverse results compared to last […]2016 crisis update: the year of the Red Fire Monkey burns the world’s markets down
February 10, 2016 by Leave a Comment
The Chinese New Year began two days ago and has brought already significant turbulences and volatilities to the global financial markets and economies. Luckily for the world’s second largest economy, Chinese stock markets are closed due to New Year’s festivities and haven’t experienced, at least yet, the losses of the European, U.S. and Japanese markets. This […]Commission and ECB prepare new financial mega-tool in support of SMEs
May 3, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Yesterday the two most important institutions of the European Union, the European Commission and the European Central Bank, separately unveiled their intentions to seriously engage in an effort to create a new policy tool in support of the Union’s Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and defragment Eurozone’s financial markets .The Commission issued an announcement entitled, […]The US reject EU proposal for prudential financial controls
February 18, 2013 by Leave a Comment
The North Atlantic economic volume, comprising mainly Eurozone and Britain on the one side and US and Canada on the other constitute the largest almost uniform playfield. Of the two sides, however, the more dependant on the rest of the world is the American one and more precisely the US, with its huge double deficits, […]European financial values on the rise
January 11, 2013 by Leave a Comment
No doubt the screams, mainly coming from English language media, economists and commentators about the possible dissolution of Eurozone have now subsided and only some late comers in the league of those who have bet on Eurozone’s destruction still try to salvage their wrecks, by predicting catastrophe. On the other side of the fence those […]
