Five years after the outburst of the financial crisis, Finance Watch organised a conference with high-level experts to debate whether the reforms we have seen so far have gone far enough.

Session 4: Accountability - Democratising the reform process

Panel discussion
• Sharon Bowles, MEP, Chair of the European Parliament’s ECON Committee
• Robert Jenkins, former member of the Bank of England’s Financial Policy
Committee
• Professor Walter Mattli, Exective Director, Department of Politics and
International Relations, Oxford University
• Simon Lewis, CEO, AFME

Discussion moderated by Robert Kuttner, The American Prospect

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In the first podcast of Finance Watch, Aline Fares (our Expertise and Campaigns coordinator)and Frédéric Hache (our Head of Policy Analysis) discuss about the basics of the TTIP. The podcast, moderated by Alvaro Oleart (our communications trainee), is divided in four parts. The first track is the full podcast, while the other four are the full podcast divided by subjects. We hope you enjoy it!

TTIP Part 4, What is at Stake for Finance Watch in TTIP? (3:47)

TTIP Part 3, Financial Services in TTIP (5:47)

TTIP Part 2, Investor-state dispute settlement (4:59)

TTIP Part 1, What is TTIP? (10:20)

Full TTIP Podcast (24:56)

Welcome to the first podcast of Finance Watch, in which Aline Fares and Frédéric Hache discuss the “TTIP”, or the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. The podcast is moderated by Alvaro Oleart and is divided by subject into four parts of a few minutes each. The fifth track is the full podcast, while the last is an update of part 2, dedicated to the ISDS and the new Investment Court System proposed by the European Commission on the 16th September 2015. This podcast was recorded the 3rd of September and, therefore, the replacement of the ISDS was not yet public. We hope you enjoy it! 

Update of Part 2, New Investment Court System for TTIP (2:44)

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