Tag Archives | European Banking Authority

Does Standard & Poor’s represent civil society?

20 September 2011 in Financial Markets

Oh dear. It’s all going wrong for the European Banking Authority (EBA), the new agency responsible for policing the EU’s banking sector. We noted some promising signs here a few months ago, but it’s been largely downhill since then. In July it carried out what it claimed was a comprehensive ‘stress test’ of European banks, […]

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Stress-testing the supervisors: how transparent is the European Banking Authority?

10 June 2011 in Accountability, European Union, Financial Markets

Last week the Transparency International’s EU office was back among the bankers at the European Commission’s Group of Experts on Banking Issues (see previous post here). Quite a lot has happened since that February meeting. Most importantly, Transparency International’s EU Office decided to become a founding member of Finance Watch a new Brussels-based civil society body that will […]

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