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.

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Capital Markets

MIFID

22 December 2021

EFAMA’s response to ESMA’s Review of the MiFID II framework on best execution reports

This is a timely and necessary review to which we hope to contribute in a constructive manner. As already recognised in the consultation paper and in the MiFID Quick Fix proposal, RTS 27 and RTS 28 currently fall short of the objective of providing valuable and comparable datasets for investment managers and the investing public. We appreciate the present effort to revise reporting requirements to produce more meaningful reports.

Policy Position

Capital Markets

CSDR

22 December 2021

Industry Approach to CSDR Settlement Discipline Regime

The Joint Associations¹ welcome clarification from ESMA that national competent authorities are expected not to prioritise supervisory actions in relation to the application of the CSDR buy-in regime.²

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Capital Markets

MIFID

15 December 2021

Joint Statement on EU Commission proposal for revised Market in Financial Instrument Regulation (MiFIR)

We see great value in the creation of a consolidated tape to support Europe’s capital markets. However, we qualify that statement with a reminder that the framework for a successful consolidated tape should

i) address the known market failure around market data costs,

An appropriately constructed Consolidated Tape could help to build deeper and more open capital markets in Europe

EFAMA and EFSA welcome the publication of a Market Structure Partners Study on the Creation of an EU Consolidated Tape which addresses the challenges, demand, benefits and proposed architecture for consolidating European financial market data.

Speech

Capital Markets

Distribution ＆ Client Disclosures

13 October 2020

Speech by Tanguy van de Werve at CMVM Annual Conference on 8 October 2020

CMVM 2020 Conference – 8 October 2020

Press Release

Capital Markets

MIFID

Distribution ＆ Client Disclosures

22 May 2020

EFAMA calls for changes to investor protection rules in MIFID II / MIFIR Review

EFAMA has submitted its response to the European Commission's consultations on the review of the MIFID II / MIFIR regulatory framework, where it has outlined its recommendations on investor protection and capital markets and infrastructure.

EFAMA's Director General Tanguy van de Werve commented:

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Capital Markets

MIFID

Data

Distribution ＆ Client Disclosures

04 March 2020

3 Questions to Rudolf Siebel on Market Data Costs

Q #1 Have you witnessed an increase in the cost of market data over the last couple of years? If so, how can it be explained?

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Capital Markets

Capital Markets Union

Competitiveness

EU Fund regulation

International agenda

Management Companies

Sustainable Finance

Tax ＆ Accounting

17 September 2019

Asset Management Report 2019

The EFAMA Asset Management in Europe report aims at providing facts and figures to gain a better understanding of the role of the European asset management industry. It takes a different approach from that of the other EFAMA research reports, on two grounds. Firstly, this report does not focus exclusively on investment funds, but it also analyses the assets that are managed by asset managers under the form of discretionary mandates. Secondly, the report focuses on the countries where the investment fund assets are managed rather than on the countries in which the funds are domiciled.

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