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 The protection of nature, including biodiversity, has become a political priority at the EU level as a part of the Green Deal and at the international level with the Kunming-Montréal Agreement of December 2022. The EU sustainable reporting framework requires the disclosure of information related to the impact of financial and non-financial corporations on … Continued
Objectives This session will first discuss how the uptake of AI is progressing in the financial sector, the relationship between data and AI, how use cases are expected to evolve in the medium term with the sophistication of AI technologies and increasing analytical capacity and also the expected benefits and challenges for customers and financial … Continued
Objectives The EU framework on sustainable finance aims to enhance transparency in the sustainability of financial and non-financial corporations through regulations such as SFDR, CSDR, the green taxonomy, and ESRS. Global efforts, like the ISSB standards, also target climate-related disclosures. However, a lack of high-quality and comparable data poses a significant obstacle, especially from SMEs … Continued
Objectives This session will first discuss how cyber and digital operational resilience challenges are evolving in the EU financial sector, how the preparation of the implementation of DORA is progressing and the key elements remaining to be further clarified or specified. The panel will then assess the needs in terms of international coordination in this … Continued
Objectives The eurozone has been experiencing a structural growth shortfall relative to the United States and China since the mid-1990s due to structural weaknesses. The Eurofi Economic Scoreboard reminds us that GDP in volume grew by 66.2% from 1998 to 2022 in the US and by only 39.7% in the euro area, according the IMF … Continued
Objectives The IAIS Global Insurance Market Report 2023 highlights some key risks and trends facing the global insurance sector. Although the overall outlook has improved compared to a year ago, there are still challenges to address. The report assesses interest rate, liquidity, and credit risks within the current macroeconomic context. Household purchasing power strains and … Continued
Objectives In the context of new EU legislation and supervision, achieving an effective breakthrough in Anti-Money Laundering (AML) requires gathering key success factors across various areas. A central pillar of success lies in the set-up of the AML Authority (AMLA) which raises many challenges. AMLA must efficiently identify high-risk institutions and entities, cover the entire … Continued
Objectives This session will first take stock of the challenges that public and private pension schemes are facing in the EU and of the connection between effective pre-funded pension schemes and large capital markets and identify the issues to tackle on the supply and demand sides to further develop pre-funded pensions. The panel will also … Continued
