Fundamentals of EU Financial Regulation

In today's interconnected financial markets, robust regulation is essential to safeguard stability, protect consumers, and maintain trust. EU financial regulation provides the framework that underpins these goals across member states, ensuring transparency, resilience, and integrity in a rapidly evolving environment shaped by digital innovation and sustainability challenges.

Fundamentals of EU Financial Regulation is the cornerstone of the Oxford EU Financial Regulation Series. This authoritative volume introduces the conceptual and institutional foundations of European financial regulation and offers a clear, systematic overview of the entire field. It explains how the different components of EU financial regulation fit together, interrelate, and contribute to the core objectives of regulation: market integrity, user protection, financial stability, and—more recently—sustainable finance.

Unlike works that treat aspects of financial regulation in isolation, this book provides the context needed to situate any question within the broader framework. Readers will find concise yet comprehensive guidance on legislation and case law, with each chapter concluding with further reading suggestions, including other titles in the Series. Digital and sustainable finance initiatives are integrated throughout, showing how they refine and reinforce the main regulatory objectives.

Written in an accessible style without sacrificing depth, this volume is an essential resource for practitioners, regulators, policymakers, and academics. It combines clarity with practical orientation, making it equally valuable for professionals and for advanced university courses on EU financial regulation.