Retail financial services: Green Paper on future EU policy

The European Commission launched in 2007 a public debate on its future policy on retail financial services. In a Green Paper the Commission has set out its broad objectives for financial products such as bank accounts, loans, mortgages, investments and insurance provided to individual consumers. In launching a wide public consultation on retail financial services the Commission aims to deepen its understanding of the problems faced by consumers and industry in this area and identify the best track to make retail banking and insurance services cheaper for consumers.

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