Living in Poland, I have got used to using their local system for payments called BLIK. The way BLIK works is that you access your bank account app, enter a code, get a code back and make a payment at a point-of-sale, ATM, online or anywhere that needs a payment approved. The reason I like … Read more
The EU has implemented a series of sanctions against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine. Yet as Ousmène Jacques Mandeng argues, the EU’s response to the war has been undermined by the level of trade many EU states continue to do with Russia. The European Union has launched a series of measures to contain Russia … Read more
Dr. Ceren Kasım, Postdoctoral Research and Teaching Fellow, University of Hildesheim, Germany Photo credit: MesserWoland, via Wikimedia Commons INTRODUCTION The first-ever binding European Union (EU) legal instrument to combat violence against women and domestic violence was approved on the 14th of May 2024 by the EU and has already been published … Read more
Regulation 2024/791 (“MiFIR Evaluate”) was revealed within the Official Journal of the European Union on 8 March 2024. This newly adopted laws requires single-name credit score default swaps (CDSs) to be made topic to transparency guidelines, solely nonetheless in the event that they reference international systemically essential banks (G-SIBS) or these referencing an index comprised … Read more
