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
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?
Russia's immobilised reserves
Testimony to the Dutch Committee on Foreign Affairs
Europe’s banking union at ten: unfinished yet transformative
Nicolas Véron offers the first comprehensive exploration of the genesis, implementation and possible future completion of the banking union
All work
Event
06 May 2026
Hungary's revived euro adoption prospects
At this event, Júlia Király will discuss 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
Event
24 February 2026
Financing Innovative Ventures in Europe: closing the scale-up gap
What are the policy solutions to help new European companies thrive?
Event
19 February 2026
AI adoption in the financial sector: the experience so far
At this event, Marie Brière discussed AI adoption in the financial sector
Event
03 February 2026
Bruegel movie night: Jean Monnet, l'aventurier de l'Europe
Movie screening of the documentary "Jean Monnet, l'aventurier de l'Europe"
Event
19 January 2026
The European Central Bank’s recommendations for banking policy simplification
At this event, Sharon Donnery discussed the ECB's recommendations within banking-sector policy
Podcast
26 November 2025
Ukraine talks: peace progress or dead end?
How should the EU manage negotiations with Ukraine, the US and Russia?
External publication
25 November 2025