Capital markets
Investment managers, acting on behalf of their retail and institutional clients, are among the largest investors in financial markets. They represent a key component of the market’s “buy-side” segment.
In representing the interests of its members on wholesale capital market issues, EFAMA advocates for fair, deep, liquid, and transparent capital markets, supported by properly regulated and supervised market infrastructure.
EFAMA feedback on TEG's interim report on EU climate transition benchmarks (EU CTBs) & EU Paris aligned benchmarks (EU PABs)
EFAMA's reply ESMA’s CP on Guidelines for reporting under Articles 4 & 12 SFTR
EFAMA's reply to BCBS Consultative Document on Revisions to Leverage Ratio Disclosure Requirements
Key recommendations for fair benchmark data costs - EFAMA/ICSA Global Memo on Benchmark Data Costs
EFAMA (European Fund of Asset Management Associations) and ICSA (International Council of Securities Association) published today a Global Memo on Benchmark Data Costs, identifying the main challenges arising from the increased use of benchmark data over recent decades and the imposition of increasingly complex and ove
Joint trade association letter regarding Implementation of CSDR SDR
On 11 March 2021, EFAMA and 14 trade associations representing a wide range of stakeholders in the European and global financial markets wrote to the European Commission and ESMA raising concerns about the implementation of the mandatory buy-in requirement under the EU’s CSDR Settlement Discipline Regime.
3 questions to Agathi Pafili on CSDR
Q #1 What is the CSDR’s Settlement Discipline Regime (SDR) and what does it seek to achieve?
Closet Index Funds
EFAMA has reviewed ESMA’s statement “Supervisory work on potential index tracking”, which sets out research to determine whether any indication of closet indexing could be found at EU level. To contribute to the debate on this matter, EFAMA has prepared a paper, which highlights the limits of identifying closet index funds through a statistical analysis, drawing on recently published research papers.
Annual Report 2015
