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 of the session The first objective of this session is to take stock of the progress that has been made in the EU securities post-trading space in terms of efficiency, integration and resilience and identify the further enhancements that may be achieved through an improvement of regulations (CSDR review in particular) and further actions … Continued
Objectives of the session This session will discuss the risk of increasing regulatory divergence between the EU and UK, the potential impacts in terms of efficiency, competitiveness and financial stability and the possible solutions for alleviating the negative consequences of regulatory divergence. Points of discussion Extent of divergence: Are on-going regulatory reviews in the EU … Continued
Objectives of the session The economic, monetary, and political contexts have been deteriorating since the first improvements on the Covid19 front in 2021. Indebtedness, inflation, and political fragmentation have then been compounded by the Russia war in Ukraine and related destructions, trade disruptions and sanctions. While some see these trends as an opportunity to accelerate … Continued
Objectives of the session This session will focus on the evolutions of the current EU regulatory framework required and the complementary financial tools needed to better incentivize long-term investments in the green and digital transition. Then speakers will be invited to express their views on the consequences of increasingly negative real interest rates, the over-indebtedness … Continued
Objectives of the session This session will first discuss how the Capital Markets Union is progressing both in terms of changes happening in the EU capital markets and of implementation of new regulations and whether the project is on track. The panel will also debate the key policy priorities that need to be considered in … Continued
Objectives of the session The ambition of the EU Commission has long been to build an efficient and integrated market for payment services in the EU. The aim was that citizens and businesses can make cross-border payments as easily, safely and with similar cost as they would in their own countries. This led to working … Continued
Objectives of the session This session will discuss the key issues remaining to be tackled concerning the transparency and market structure measures of the MiFIR review proposal for equity, bond, derivative and ETF instruments and the next steps for addressing them. The expected impacts of these measures on the functioning and competitiveness of EU capital … Continued
Objectives of the session In the wake of Brexit, insurers in the UK, have been asking for the Solvency II regulatory regime to be amended, blaming it for excessive regulatory capital requirements and restrictions on investable assets. However, the UK Prudential Regulation Authority, which supervises insurance undertakings, has been considerably more cautious on the file. … Continued
