Conference on Regulating Financial Markets 2024

How should financial regulation evolve as geopolitical uncertainty, technological disruption, and the shift to a sustainable economy reshape markets? These questions drove the Conference on Regulating Financial Markets 2024, co-organised by the Centre for European Transformation (CfET), Deutsche Bundesbank, LawFin, and CEPR.

Two days of regulatory debate

Over two days, academics, policymakers, regulators, and industry experts examined the future of financial regulation and its implications for Europe’s economy, focusing on frameworks that preserve stability while supporting innovation and competitiveness. Topics ranged from regulation’s effects on the real economy and bank-versus-non-bank competition, to big data and machine learning in supervision, the climate transition’s legal and economic challenges, the political economy of regulation, and digitalisation.

Keynote perspectives

Gabriel Chodorow-Reich, George Fisher Baker Professor of Economics at Harvard University, delivered a keynote on his latest research in financial markets and macroeconomic policy. At the conference dinner, Karlheinz Walch, Director General of Banking and Financial Supervision at Deutsche Bundesbank, reflected on current regulatory challenges and the evolving role of supervision.

Bridging research and practice

The conference reinforced CfET’s mission to connect academic excellence with policy and industry, advancing understanding of how regulation can support resilient, competitive markets across Europe. It was organised by Rainer Haselmann (Goethe University), Thomas Kick (Deutsche Bundesbank), Sascha Steffen (Frankfurt School), and Tobias Tröger (Goethe University).