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Julia Symon

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🇺🇦🇪🇺Research & Advocacy @forfinancewatch | #ClimateRisk #FinancialStability #Sustainablefinance #Transition #Klimarisiken #Finanzstabilität

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Joined October 2021
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Géraldine Thiry, director at the National Bank of Belgium, addresses the debate around simplification during her speech: "We must recast the conversation as one of robustness over fragility." #FWConference2026
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📢 #JobAlert: (Senior) Research & Advocacy Officer! Are you an expert in public finance, EU fiscal rules, debt sustainability and sustainability risks in macroeconomic analysis? Join us in Brussels📍to make finance serve society. Apply now 🔗 finance-watch.org/job/job-of…
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Economic models ignore key risk drivers. To avoid a #climateminsky moment, prudential authorities can: ✅ Use qualitative #climatescenarios & reverse stress tests ✅ Apply stronger capital requirements for high-risk assets. Read our paper 👉 finance-watch.org/policy-por… #ClimateLTV
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🚨@gdv_de FinanceTalk Replay: @JuliaSymon_ discusses insurers' crucial role in climate transition and what it means for #Solvency2 & #CSDDD transition plan requirements. Watch here 👇 gdv.de/gdv-en/events/finance…

Finance Talk: Effective Regulation of Transition Plans

In our Finance Talk, Julia Symon from Finance Watch and Götz Treber from GDV discuss the necessity and implementation of transition plans for companies.

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[📊Report] Policymakers give in to lobby's pressure and backtrack on even the modest achievements of the #Basel3 agreement. Finance Watch urges EU and global policymakers to reaffirm their commitment to the Basel process, an essential tool against #financialcrises... 🧵1/2
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FED's Chair Jerome Powell recognises that climate change is a risk to financial stability, but says #FED is not going to do anything about that as long as banks can manage the risk. The risk increasingly become unmanageable. Any conclusions?
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The CMU debate has never been louder, but the proposals currently on the table fall short of creating a true single market for capital. To prevent the debate from going nowhere, the new @EU_Commission must push for ambitious and effective reforms🧵 delorscentre.eu/en/publicati…
Capital Markets Union: Europe must stop beating around the bush

Capital Markets Union: Europe must stop beating around the bush

The debate on the Capital Markets Union (CMU) has never been as vociferous as it is now. EU leaders are urging rapid progress and heavyweights such as Enrico Letta and Mario Draghi are putting capital

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🥳💪Victory on the regulation of #ESG rating providers: Key recommendations pushed by @forfinancewatch are now European law. #ESGratings #SustainableFinanceEU #SusfinEU Explanations👇 finance-watch.org/blog/new-e…

New European law regulates sustainability ratings: a victory for civil society and sustainable...

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📢Read our new report! It’s a study of barriers to basic payment accounts in Germany, Spain & Romania with recommendations for updating #EU rules. Download “Breaking down barriers to basic payment accounts” today via the @forfinancewatch website 👇 finance-watch.org/policy-por…
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"This is understandable, if typical, lobbying [..] But it comes as EU bank profitability (& share price perf.) has improved markedly [..] Dressing this up in strategic status, a non-existent designation with unclear benefits, just feels a little cuckoo" ft.com/content/1fb62a1b-44a0…
European banks will struggle to get much ‘strategic’ love

European banks will struggle to get much ‘strategic’ love

Banking federation is calling for a more consistent set of rules across the EU

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BREAKING — Parliament refuses discharge of the Council budget until European Council decided to support Ukraine with additional Patriot anti-missile systems !
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"The challenge is more political than technical" #CMU looking forward to some good (? this is where the biggest job will be) old wine and new shiny bottles. ft.com/content/e77bc78c-f4ed…
Time to stop dithering over the EU’s capital markets union

Time to stop dithering over the EU’s capital markets union

Technical solutions are known, but political leadership is needed

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Happy International Women’s Day from the @forfinancewatch team! #InspireInclusion #FinancialInclusionFriday #InternationalWomansDay
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Open📨to @ecfin: We need pluralism in economic modelling. This also applies to models used in #ScenarioAnalyses by supervisors @NGFS_ @ESRBofficial @ecb @EBA_News @eiopa_europa_eu Read more on @EURACTIV👉 euractiv.com/section/economy… For solutions, read our #ClimateLTV report
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Laut @boersenzeitung sollen Banken endlich einen Teil der von ihnen verursachten Schulden zahlen. Damit hätte die #Lobbyoffensive - insbesondere wohl von der Deutschen Bank - keinen Erfolg gehabt! Ein Sieg der Bürger*innen gegen die Finanzlobby!🧵👇 boersen-zeitung.de/banken-fi…(€) \1
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What should #EU finance ministers read before sitting down to dinner this evening to discuss the EU #fiscal rule?🤔 This opinion piece by our own @Lsuttors published this lunchtime in @euronews 👇👇👇 euronews.com/business/2023/1… @germanyintheeu @RPFranceUE @eu2023es
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A lot of calls to phase out #fossilfuels at #COP28 these days. How do we operationalize these calls in the domain of finance? A short run down and a reminder of the ever more essential need to complete the homework👇 finance-watch.org/cop28-5-re…
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With a lot of discussion of #climatechange #climaterisk in the public domain, yet very little talk & understanding on how flawed are models #IAM in use to understand economic consequences of climate change. They distort decisionmakers´ view of reality. A great piece by@Reuters
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"Economic models buckle under strain of climate reality" Great work by @Reuters in covering our report on the economic modelling of climate change! Also some quotes from @lordstern1 @ProfSteveKeen, @CarbonBubble, the @ecb, the @NGFS_ & the @FinStbBoard reuters.com/business/environ…
Economic models buckle under strain of climate reality

Economic models buckle under strain of climate reality

Ahead of international climate talks in Dubai this month, economists are updating estimates of the impact of global warming on the world economy, sometimes calculating down to a decimal place the hit...

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[⚠️#CSDDD trilogues] Stripping the financial sector from its #duediligence duties would be against the objectives of the EU sustainable finance agenda and  current practices of some financial institutions. Read why in this @C_and_C_Berlin policy brief 👉climateandcompany.org/public…
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Come to our event on Tuesday! 💡What: Personal Insolvency: Does #Europe Need Harmonised Rules? 🗓️ When: November 7th, 16:00 - 18:00 CET 📍 Where: Finance Watch Office, Brussels (or online) Join the conversation 👇 finance-watch.org/event/pers… #FinancialInclusionFriday
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