This article was originally published in French in Revue Banque, © La Revue Banque.
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This article was originally published in French in Revue Banque, © La Revue Banque.
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The Commission’s initiative to simplify EU law in direct taxation, with its focus on reducing administrative burdens, eliminating outdated/overlapping rules, and improving consistency and application across Member States, is urgently needed to ensure the EU's competitiveness.
Today, EFAMA has published its latest Monthly Statistical Release for January 2026.
This article has been published in Responsible Investor
Today, EFAMA has published its latest International Quarterly Statistical Release for Q4 2025.
This article has been published on the EFAMA blog.
By Andreas Stepnitzka, Deputy Director for Regulatory Policy at EFAMA
This article has been published on the EFAMA blog.
EFAMA, BFPI Ireland, EACB, FIA EPTA, Federation of the Dutch Pension Funds,
Finance Denmark, Nordic Securities Association, AIMA, ICI Global, FIA and ISDA support positive
incentives to further enhance the attractiveness of EU clearing and EU Capital Markets, including
many of the measures proposed in EMIR 3.0. (read more)
EFAMA welcomes the IOSCO Consultation report which we believe is a good starting point for further engagement with our industry on dilution in Open-Ended Funds (OEFs). We believe that dilution may indeed trigger investor protection concerns for certain funds and welcome, in this respect, IOSCO’s commitment to protect end-investors from material dilution. This being said, we however do not support the consultation report’s significant emphasis on financial stability considerations.
EFAMA welcomes the opportunity of this consultation report to share views on how regulators could foster greater consistency in the management of liquidity risks in the Open-Ended Funds (OEFs) sector and on how the FSB should proceed in the future to evaluate any potential build-up of systemic risks in capital markets.
Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) considerations play a crucial role in asset managers' investment decisions for several reasons:
In July the European Commission released their long-awaited Retail Investment Strategy, including multiple proposals aimed at boosting retail participation in capital markets. EFAMA has provided comments on this in their ‘Have your say’ forum, where we briefly highlight some of our main concerns.

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