Technological innovation has greatly improved the safety and efficiency of securities post-trading over the last few decades and it holds the potential to resolve open issues, as well as to address new market and regulatory needs. This prompted the Advisory Group on Market Infrastructures for Se...
Capital Market Union aimed at invigorating the participation of retail investors in the financing of the economy together with other policy objectives. However, EU citizens still face difficulties when planning to invest in financial products (e.g. investment fund, life insurance or private pens...
‘Financial technologies’ (Fintech) describes the use of technology to provide financial services. This includes the use of new technologies to provide existing services such as the use of smartphone applications to provide access to banking and mobile payments, and also to new services, for exam...
This brochure presents a selection of the EESC’s opinions on the regulatory framework for establishing the Capital Markets Union and the numerous policies aimed at shaping Europe’s capital markets. Despite the progress made, the integration of these markets is far from complete....
