Post by Benjamin Quatre

French banks support the EBF asking the EU Commission to enable European banks to finance present and future needs of their customers (households, corporates, etc). The CEO of Airbus, Guillaume Faury, was saying yesterday "we should not do the same errors than the automotive industry", meaning doing not enough during the good times. The European banking industry risks to be in the same situation. Making good profits but losing ground on several markets: half of the investment banking market is done by American banks in Europe; as mentioned by the Aviation working group, European banks have lost 15% market shares to finance aircraft industry since the implementation of CRR 3 early 2025 and now Airbus is mainly financed by chinese banks; European banks are losing ground on syndicated loans market and are replaced by private credits' players which are not regulated to finance data centers for example. Long story short, we need the European Commission to adjust our regulatory environnement not to create financing vulnerabilities at the moment we discover the "kill switch" with Anthropic.