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Finance Watch is an independent non-profit association dedicated to reforming finance in the interest of citizens.

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#2025InReview
2025 brought major shifts in Europe’s financial regulations, raising questions about risk management and long-term resilience, fairness, and accountability.

🎥 Discover the topics that shaped Finance Watch’s research and public engagement. ▶️
January 15, 2026 at 10:17 AM
📢 We’re hiring a Grants Administration Intern in Brussels!

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January 9, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Bien dit @chrisaltereco.bsky.social :
"Tout pointe une montée des risques, dans beaucoup de marchés, fortement interconnectés, et impliquant les banques, mais surtout ne demandons pas à ces dernières d’efforts supplémentaires pour nous protéger des folies de la finance"

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January 6, 2026 at 10:03 AM
❄️ This holiday season, we’re sharing a glimpse of the future we’re working towards: a world where finance serves both society and the planet.

From everyone at Finance Watch, thank you for standing with us on this mission. We wish you a peaceful end to the year and a 2026 full of hope!
December 23, 2025 at 1:49 PM
“Non bank finance” sounds like it sits outside the banking system.
It does not. Banks remain at the heart of today’s shadow banking system. 👇
December 18, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Ever clicked “yes” online and later wondered why? You may have met a dark pattern, a manipulative design trick that hides fees, fakes urgency or pushes subscriptions. Dark patterns cost you money and compromise your privacy.

🔗 Learn how to protect yourself: www.finance-watch.org/blog/dark-pa...
December 17, 2025 at 11:49 AM
@leevisaari.bsky.social from @ainowinstitute.bsky.social on the #AI bubble:

"Open AI lost 10bn in the last quarter. Three big tech companies spent 350bn on AI last year, and our EU competitiveness fund is 450bn over the next 6 years. This is a bubble which is going to burst."

#FinanceForSociety
Adriana Cuppuleri from @algorithmwatch.org addresses how AI influences credit scoring systems and the huge gap in agency regarding the technologies that have an effect on our lives:

"Scoring is never just neutral, it is built on a political assessment."

#AIAct #FinanceForSociety
🤖 AI is reshaping finance faster than regulation can keep up.

Adriana Cuppuleri from @algorithmwatch.org, @leevisaari.bsky.social from @ainowinstitute.bsky.social and Christian M. Stiefmüller discuss how Big Tech is reshaping our financial system (and society).

#FinanceForSociety
December 4, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Adriana Cuppuleri from @algorithmwatch.org addresses how AI influences credit scoring systems and the huge gap in agency regarding the technologies that have an effect on our lives:

"Scoring is never just neutral, it is built on a political assessment."

#AIAct #FinanceForSociety
🤖 AI is reshaping finance faster than regulation can keep up.

Adriana Cuppuleri from @algorithmwatch.org, @leevisaari.bsky.social from @ainowinstitute.bsky.social and Christian M. Stiefmüller discuss how Big Tech is reshaping our financial system (and society).

#FinanceForSociety
December 4, 2025 at 3:06 PM
🤖 AI is reshaping finance faster than regulation can keep up.

Adriana Cuppuleri from @algorithmwatch.org, @leevisaari.bsky.social from @ainowinstitute.bsky.social and Christian M. Stiefmüller discuss how Big Tech is reshaping our financial system (and society).

#FinanceForSociety
December 4, 2025 at 2:52 PM
@annpettifor.bsky.social on the role of pension funds at the #FinanceForSociety Forum:

"Pensions should be invested in the domestic economy to provide for domestic growth, employment and income, from which the future pensions can be paid."
@annpettifor.bsky.social on the coming future crisis due to debt accumulation and the bailout state:

"The markets are operating in their stratosphere and beyond government oversight. Yet, unlike the crisis in the past, today the markets cannot and will not go bust..."
December 4, 2025 at 2:01 PM
@annpettifor.bsky.social on the coming future crisis due to debt accumulation and the bailout state:

"The markets are operating in their stratosphere and beyond government oversight. Yet, unlike the crisis in the past, today the markets cannot and will not go bust..."
December 4, 2025 at 1:53 PM
@annpettifor.bsky.social on the migration away from national boundaries - and democratic oversight and regulation - at the #FinanceForSociety Forum:

"The global economy is now effectively governed by those active in private global markets in money; not the democratic governments or the IMF."
@annpettifor.bsky.social at the #FinanceForSociety Forum:

"To the detriment of the rest of us and while the casino operates in another sphere altogether, it remains tethered to the real 'bailout economy' we live and work in: our pensions, cost-of-living, housing and our climate."
@annpettifor.bsky.social touches on the hype and marketing behind the #AI bubble at the #FinanceForSociety Forum:

"The AGI bubble may just be a vast techno-dystopian power play to put tech bosses at the helm of political and economic control. This is class war at its most brutal."
December 4, 2025 at 1:46 PM
@annpettifor.bsky.social at the #FinanceForSociety Forum:

"To the detriment of the rest of us and while the casino operates in another sphere altogether, it remains tethered to the real 'bailout economy' we live and work in: our pensions, cost-of-living, housing and our climate."
@annpettifor.bsky.social touches on the hype and marketing behind the #AI bubble at the #FinanceForSociety Forum:

"The AGI bubble may just be a vast techno-dystopian power play to put tech bosses at the helm of political and economic control. This is class war at its most brutal."
📣 LIVE NOW! @annpettifor.bsky.social speaks along with Greg Ford from Finance Watch at the #FinanceforSociety Forum in Brussels on challenging the global casino by building economic and climate justice.

Watch here 👇
December 4, 2025 at 1:41 PM
@annpettifor.bsky.social touches on the hype and marketing behind the #AI bubble at the #FinanceForSociety Forum:

"The AGI bubble may just be a vast techno-dystopian power play to put tech bosses at the helm of political and economic control. This is class war at its most brutal."
📣 LIVE NOW! @annpettifor.bsky.social speaks along with Greg Ford from Finance Watch at the #FinanceforSociety Forum in Brussels on challenging the global casino by building economic and climate justice.

Watch here 👇
Finance for Society Forum | LIVE Keynote 2 with Ann Pettifor
YouTube video by Finance Watch
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December 4, 2025 at 1:37 PM
📣 LIVE NOW! @annpettifor.bsky.social speaks along with Greg Ford from Finance Watch at the #FinanceforSociety Forum in Brussels on challenging the global casino by building economic and climate justice.

Watch here 👇
Finance for Society Forum | LIVE Keynote 2 with Ann Pettifor
YouTube video by Finance Watch
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December 4, 2025 at 1:24 PM
@andrewwatteu.bsky.social from @etui.bsky.social on the need for a bigger role for public finance:

"We need a bigger EU budget, common borrowing and safe assets, as well as a further reform of fiscal rules with the view of enabling public investment."

#FinanceForSociety
@thomasfazi.bsky.social at the #FinanceForSociety Forum:

"95% of #BlackFriday sales were financed. (...) People are entering long term indebtedness to maintain consumption levels. These kind of high levels of private debt were exactly what caused the last financial crisis."
December 4, 2025 at 12:16 PM
@thomasfazi.bsky.social at the #FinanceForSociety Forum:

"95% of #BlackFriday sales were financed. (...) People are entering long term indebtedness to maintain consumption levels. These kind of high levels of private debt were exactly what caused the last financial crisis."
December 4, 2025 at 12:07 PM
@dirkehnts.bsky.social on the past examples of using credit policies to steer finance into productive industry at the #FinanceForSociety Forum:

"A different world is possible and we have already been there. We need to reimagine it for the XXI century!"
@christinejberry.bsky.social at the #FinanceForSociety Forum:

"The financial sector weaponises complexity. We see this playing out in advocacy; shaping complex regulations which are now being unwound because the industry then says they are 'too complex to comply with.' How do we break this cycle?"
December 4, 2025 at 12:03 PM
@christinejberry.bsky.social at the #FinanceForSociety Forum:

"The financial sector weaponises complexity. We see this playing out in advocacy; shaping complex regulations which are now being unwound because the industry then says they are 'too complex to comply with.' How do we break this cycle?"
December 4, 2025 at 12:01 PM
@thomasfazi.bsky.social on the financialisation of everyday life through the touristification of cities & the rise of 'buy now, pay later':

"The financial establishment has been able to evade scrutiny even as it extends its tentacles in our society and become more influential over our lives."
📣 At our plenary, @thomasfazi.bsky.social, @christinejberry.bsky.social, @andrewwatteu.bsky.social and @dirkehnts.bsky.social discuss how to shift finance to serve people and society, alongside moderator Marek Hudon.

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December 4, 2025 at 11:56 AM
📣 At our plenary, @thomasfazi.bsky.social, @christinejberry.bsky.social, @andrewwatteu.bsky.social and @dirkehnts.bsky.social discuss how to shift finance to serve people and society, alongside moderator Marek Hudon.

A thread 🧵
December 4, 2025 at 11:40 AM
@geoffmann.bsky.social at the #FinanceForSociety Forum on how uncertainty and crises are shaping our societies, reducing the assumption of a stable horizon:

"The now annual ‘hundred-year flood’ is a good metaphor for where we are."
@geoffmann.bsky.social on the need to re-politicise finance at the #FinanceForSociety Forum:

"Global tumult has accelerated in the last decade and dangerous is the new normal. But finance is how capital selects its future. Finance is the single greatest means to address an age of uncertainty."
Our secretary-general Benoît Lallemand touches on climate change at the #FinanceForSociety Forum:

"Currently, climate scenarios massively underestimate the cost of climate change (...) and even if we recognised the true cost, we still need massive political courage to start addressing the problem"
December 4, 2025 at 9:59 AM
@geoffmann.bsky.social on the need to re-politicise finance at the #FinanceForSociety Forum:

"Global tumult has accelerated in the last decade and dangerous is the new normal. But finance is how capital selects its future. Finance is the single greatest means to address an age of uncertainty."
Our secretary-general Benoît Lallemand touches on climate change at the #FinanceForSociety Forum:

"Currently, climate scenarios massively underestimate the cost of climate change (...) and even if we recognised the true cost, we still need massive political courage to start addressing the problem"
@geoffmann.bsky.social ponders on the role of finance at the #FinanceForSociety Forum:

“Finance is the single most important machine in the construction of the future, the crucial first step in planet-making. It’s the most powerful tool we have to address the future and its uncertainties.”
December 4, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Our secretary-general Benoît Lallemand touches on climate change at the #FinanceForSociety Forum:

"Currently, climate scenarios massively underestimate the cost of climate change (...) and even if we recognised the true cost, we still need massive political courage to start addressing the problem"
@geoffmann.bsky.social ponders on the role of finance at the #FinanceForSociety Forum:

“Finance is the single most important machine in the construction of the future, the crucial first step in planet-making. It’s the most powerful tool we have to address the future and its uncertainties.”
December 4, 2025 at 9:45 AM
@geoffmann.bsky.social ponders on the role of finance at the #FinanceForSociety Forum:

“Finance is the single most important machine in the construction of the future, the crucial first step in planet-making. It’s the most powerful tool we have to address the future and its uncertainties.”
December 4, 2025 at 9:23 AM