全球智库信息集成服务系统

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• An efficient financial system is essential to the good functioning of the economy. The various functions of the financial system can be provided either by banks or by markets.
• These two sources of funding are complementary and the exact composition between banks and markets is usually not decisive.
• Nevertheless, the European financial system is too strongly bank-based and its markets are underdeveloped. It is absolutely necessary to rebalance it to make it favourable to growth and employment again.
• Developing and integrating European financial markets will allow firms to access a diversified source of funding, adapted to their needs, and increase risk-sharing between European countries to help them absorb shocks.
• The capital markets union is a long-term project, but a series of ambitious reforms and a new institutional architecture could steer the financial system in the right direction.