Tag: consumer finance

Greenwashing in sustainable finance

How the EU’s simplification agenda opens the door for greenwashing in finance

The EU’s ‘Sustainability Omnibus’ loosens sustainability rules for big businesses, but it’s not too late to introduce necessary guardrails to prevent greenwashing explains Tom Redmond from BEUC’s Financial Services team.

/ September 16, 2025
The digital euro could offer many benefits to consumers.

The future of payments: why we need an inclusive digital euro

In an increasingly digitalised world, a digital euro offers many advantages but only if it can mirror the key characteristics of cash, writes Anna Martin.

/ October 13, 2023

A regulatory tsunami – really?

Memory in politics is often short. Less than a decade after a devastating financial crash caused by a lack of regulation in the financial sector, the gates to deregulation seem to be opening again. Banks like to refer to the...

/ April 7, 2016