Speakers
Public Authorities
Barclays Europe
Industry Speaker - Member of the Management Board UBS Europe SE, Head EMEA GCRG
DG for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union, European Commission
Industry Speaker - EMEA CFO & UK CEO
Federal Ministry of Finance, Austria
Public authority speaker - Undersecretary of State
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Industry Speaker - Chief Executive Officer
Ministry of Finance, Poland
Public authority speaker - Deputy Assistant Secretary, Financial Markets and Corporate Financing
Ministry of the Economy, Finance and Industrial and Digital Sovereignty, France
Public authority speaker - Deputy Director-General
ROOM 2
Chair - Director General for Economic Policy and Financial Markets
UBS Europe SE
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Objectives
challenges and priorities
Points of discussion
- In recent years, the European financial regulatory framework has grown increasingly complex, reflecting the EU’s ambition to safeguard financial stability, enhance investor protection, and integrate sustainability and digital resilience into financial markets. While many of these regulations have achieved important objectives, the accumulation of rules— across prudential, market, AML, ESG and digital domains—has led to overlapping requirements, inconsistencies and increased compliance burdens.
- This session aims to take stock of the main sources of regulatory complexity and to explore how simplification can be achieved without compromising the core objectives of the EU financial framework.
- Speakers will examine the expected benefits of simplification, the practical and political challenges involved, and the priority areas where simplification efforts should focus in the years ahead.
- The discussion will also consider the role of digital tools, the potential of proportionality and differentiation, and the lessons that can be drawn from other jurisdictions.