Eurofi organizes two major annual events ahead of the informal Ecofin meetings, bringing together over 900 public and private sector representatives to discuss financial regulation, macroeconomic trends, and industry developments.
Current Topics
Content on the key topics currently being addressed by Eurofi: policy notes, summaries of working sessions and insights from public and private sector representatives.
Economic and stability challenges
Digitalisation and technology
Capital market regulation
Banking and insurance regulation
Sustainability challenges
Payments and AML
Objectives Drawing on the experiences of the EU and the US in bridging the gaps in climate risk insurance, this session aims to delve deeper into the key challenges associated with climate change insurance, explore the concept of economic resilience associated with addressing these risks, and highlight the imperatives and associated tools required to overcome … Continued
Objectives This session will first explore the latest trends in terms of AI and cloud adoption in the financial services sector, the opportunities and challenges for the financial sector associated with the use of these technologies and the implementation challenges they are facing. The panel will then analyse how current and upcoming digital and financial … Continued
Objectives The session is dedicated to clarifying the main weaknesses of the sustainability framework notably regarding its complexity and cost as raised by various stakeholders. In a clarified context the session will then focus on outlining what would be the possible levers to address these weaknesses and improve the general acceptability and by in of … Continued
Objectives This session aims to discuss progress and challenges in the regulation of cryptoassets both at EU and global level, as well as emerging trends in the crypto market that need to be considered from a policy perspective. The session will first take stock of the introduction of EU measures on asset-referenced and e-money tokens … Continued
Objectives The SFDR (Sustainable finance disclosure regulation) started to be implemented in March 2021. The implementation of SFDR has raised some controversies and criticisms. In particular its 8 and 9 articles have been used like labels by financial investors, but the lack of clarity of these articles has backfired. The European Commission launched a consultation … Continued
Objectives This session will first take stock of the short and longer term impact of new technologies in the financial sector and the opportunities and challenges they present. The panel will also assess the relevance of existing sectoral and horizontal digital frameworks in supporting an effective digitalisation of financial services and identify key policy priorities … Continued
Objectives The first objective of this session is to take stock of the uptake of new technologies such as blockchain, smart contracts and AI in securities markets, of their expected impacts in terms of efficiency, safety and customer service and of the related opportunities and challenges. Secondly, the panel will assess the challenges and potential … Continued
Objectives This session aims to explore the main economic, politic, technology, … challenges to which the EU sustainability approach is faced today, as well as to discuss possible ways forward and the related priorities for the financial sector. Points of discussion: What are the main features of the general context regarding the sustainability approach? What … Continued
