In an exclusive interview with Daily News at Sibos, Fabian Vandenreydt, executive chairman of collaborative innovation platform B-Hive, explains what it’s doing for creativity and how it will form a separate company for scale-ups. Like Vandenreydt, the origins of B-Hive lie firmly in Belgium. It was...
In this commentary, EPC Chief Executive Fabian Zuleeg analyses the state of Brexit negotiations : At the October EU Summit, as expected, the EU27 did not conclude that the Brexit negotiations had progressed sufficiently to warrant opening the discussions on the future (economic) relationship between the...
Le système financier a, dans son ensemble, un impact certain sur la dimension durable de l’économie européenne. Cette durabilité est, par ailleurs, généralement caractérisée par trois composantes interdépendantes : l’aspect environnemental, l’aspect social et l’aspect économique. Dans ce rapport sur la finance verte, EBF a voulu particulièrement...
Depuis 2015, on ne compte plus les publications abordant l’adoption possible de solutions “Distributed ledgers technologies” (DLTs) au niveau du traitement des titres post-marché. Cependant, les discussions plus spécifiques sur l’éventuel impact des DLTs sur l’intégration des marchés financiers semblent rester à un stade préliminaire....
The Chairman of the Financial Services and Markets Authority (FSMA), Jean-Paul Servais, has been re-elected to chair the ESMA committee on financial innovation. The work in this area has to do specifically with various types of complex or innovative financial instruments as well as with...
Dans un papier nommé « Developing EU Capital Markets for SMEs : Mission impossible ? », Apostolos Thomadakis (ECMI) explore la question du financement des PME par les marchés de capitaux. Ces derniers offrent une alternative intéressante aux prêts bancaires mais peinent à s’imposer pour les PME. A ce jour,...
Fewer than ten of the approximately 40 banks that conduct EU business out of London have applied so far for a licence to continue banking in the bloc after Britain leaves, regulatory sources told Reuters. The slow pace of applications is raising concern at the European...
On 6 September 2017, AFME has published a new paper called “The Need for Early Clarity on a Brexit transition”. The paper is intended to i) explain in more detail the importance and necessity of transitional arrangements and ii) summarises AFME’s views on what such arrangements...
FinTech has the potential to transform the provision of financial services. For this reason, public authorities in the EU and beyond have started to investigate the impact FinTech is having on the financial system and its regulation and supervision. The EBA has conducted already a significant...
End of March 2017, Directorate-General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union (DG FISMA) of the European Commission launched a public consultation on the operations of the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs). The consultation was designed to gather evidence from all interested parties on the operations...
