SIU: can decisive progress be made with the current proposals?

Objectives With most legislative initiatives under the SIU Strategy now proposed and in light of the European Council’s calls to accelerate implementation of phase 1 of the SIU as a key driver of EU competitiveness, this session will assess whether the current SIU package can generate decisive and tangible progress in the development and integration … Continued

Objectives The session will assess whether the EU Supplementary Pensions Package is sufficiently ambitious, coherent and operational to respond to mounting demographic, fiscal and adequacy pressures, and whether it can act as a genuine catalyst for expanding coverage and scale across Member States. It will examine how the proposed revisions to the IORP II Directive … Continued

Objectives This session will assess how the deployment of DLT-based solutions and the transition to T+1 settlement are progressing in the European post-trading space, and how these developments are contributing to the objectives of the SIU. It will also examine the remaining challenges and whether additional measures or guidance are needed beyond the actions currently … Continued

Objectives This session aims to take stock of Europe’s medium-term innovation financing gap by identifying the key bottlenecks along the innovation lifecycle, in particular at the scale-up and late-stage phases. It will examine the respective roles of market structure, risk appetite, exit conditions and regulatory fragmentation in constraining the mobilisation of patient risk capital. In … Continued

Objectives This session will assess to what extent the post-trading measures proposed in the Market Integration and Supervision Package (MISP) proposal, notably to enhance connectivity between market infrastructures, can facilitate cross-border settlement and strengthen the integration of European post-trading. It will also examine whether the MISP measures are sufficient to address remaining barriers to integration, … Continued