Nicolas Véron
Nicolas Véron is a Senior Fellow at Bruegel. He specialises in financial systems and financial reform.
His research includes global financial regulatory initiatives, financial sector policy in the European Union and selected developments in other jurisdictions. He has authored or co-authored numerous policy papers on themes such as financial stability, banking and capital market supervision, crisis management, financial reporting, financial sanctions, anti-money laundering and economic nationalism.
He speaks English, French and Spanish.
Nicolas is also a Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. He is a board member of the global repository and derivatives arm of the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation, a financial infrastructure company that operates on a not-for-profit basis. Before his involvement in the creation of Bruegel in 2002-2005, he had early professional experience in the French government and private sector. In 2012, Bloomberg Markets included him in its annual 50 Global Most Influential list with reference to his early advocacy of European banking union.
Disclosure of interests
Declarations of interests 2020
Featured work
How can the EU improve the competitiveness of its megabanks?
European Union capital requirements on megabanks: the low road or the high road
EU megabanks are not facing crippling US competitive pressure, making fragmentation, regulatory complexity and crisis response the real priorities
Ukraine talks: peace progress or dead end?
How should the EU manage negotiations with Ukraine, the US and Russia?
The European Savings and Investment Union: What Will Poland Get Out of It?
How can Europe take greater advantage of Russia’s immobilised reserve assets?
An EU reparations loan is the right way to help Ukraine
European Union countries should agree to back a clever workaround that would leave Russia’s assets untouched but leverage them to support Ukraine
Is Europe ready for a major banking crisis?
This Policy Brief is a reissue of a Policy Brief published by Bruegel in August 2007
Growth of private markets in the UK following reforms introduced after 2008
Testimony to the UK House of Lords Financial Services Regulation Committee
The EU’s capital markets quest
Enrico Letta and Nicolas Véron discuss prospects for common EU financial supervision
How can the EU achieve its aim of a Savings and Investments Union?
Breaking the deadlock: a single supervisor to unshackle Europe's capital markets union
EU Banking Sector & Competitiveness
Updated assessment: Memo to the commissioner responsible for financial services
20 years of improving economic policy: story of Bruegel, story of Europe
Bruegel’s founders recount the think tank’s creation and its journey to becoming a key player in Europe’s economic policy landscape
Back to the future: main financial services themes for European Commissioner designate Maria Luís Albuquerque
The European Commission should prioritise capital markets supervisory integration and banking-union completion
Relaxing capital requirements would plant the seeds of the next banking crisis
Breaking the vicious circle between banks and sovereigns for good
Banking union and the long wait for cross-border integration
Memo to the commissioner responsible for financial services
Can Europe's banking union ever be completed?
All work
Event
15 September 2026
How will future banking crises be handled in the euro area?
Join this event of the Finance Focus series with Nicolas Veron and Tuija Taos
Newsletter
13 July 2026
Event
16 July 2026
Assessing emerging risks in the US financial system
At this event, Mayra Rodríguez Valladares explores the key risks facing the US economy and financial system
Working paper
02 July 2026
European Union capital requirements on megabanks: the low road or the high road
EU megabanks are not facing crippling US competitive pressure, making fragmentation, regulatory complexity and crisis response the real priorities
Event
26 June 2026
Quantifying the benefits of reducing EU banking system fragmentation
Join this event of the Finance Focus series with Nicolas Veron and Damien Capelle
Event
15 June 2026
CANCELLED: The European payments initiative and its Wero digital wallet
Unfortunately this event has been cancelled.
Event
06 May 2026
Hungary's revived euro adoption prospects
At this event, Júlia Király discussed the prospects and main challenges of Hungary adopting the euro.
Event
22 April 2026
Banking reform in the EU: a conversation with Frank Elderson
How should the EU balance banking reform, risk and competitiveness?
Event
07 April 2026
US banking supervision in long-term perspective
At this event, Peter Conti-Brown discussed how the EU can balance competitiveness with financial stability in a world shaped by US deregulation
Event
18 March 2026
Is the global financial system fragmenting?
At this event, Alfred Schipke and Nicolas Veron discussed shifts in the global financial system