The research carried out within the FRG axe is in line with recent economic and political events, questioning the practical and the regulatory re-foundation of financial activities at the service of a long-term economy within a globalised context, technological innovation (FinTech), and accelerated bank disintermediation. Theme 1 deals with the interactions between traditional and new actors of the long-term financing of European companies, going on to questions of governance within a framework of their contractual relations with their lenders. Theme 2 deals with financial actors’ (namely savers, investors, financial intermediaries) changes in: behaviour, financial innovation and public policy regulatory challenges, institutions, and the occupations concerned