Financial markets have been the object of heavy regulatory activity over the last 15 years.
Issuing a retail central bank digital currency (CBDC) has emerged as a high priority for most of the central banks around the world.
Seven years into the launch of the project to create a Capital Markets Union (CMU), capital markets in the EU have neither significantly developed nor become more integrated.
Many factors – changing economic/financial conditions, evolving demographics, market fragmentation risks, regulatory and technological developments, and new political priorities
Four years after its launch, opinions on the success of the CMU project are mixed.
In December 2014, ECMI and CEPS formed the European Capital Markets Expert Group (ECMEG) with the aim of providing a long-term contribution to the debate on the Capital Markets U
The unstoppable race of commodity prices comes at a critical moment, when European and US economies are languishing in regaining the ground lost as a result of the recent financi
CEPS and ECMI wish to engage market participants, together with international experts, academics and regulators, in a discussion on long-term investing and long-term saving produ
The Task Force Rethinking Asset Management was set up by the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) and the European Capital Markets Institute (ECMI) in late 2010 to research
Successfully finalised with the publication of its final report in February 2011 (see below), this task force brought together market participants, international experts, academi
The financial crisis has had a severe impact on European financial markets.
The European fund management industry has undergone profound changes since the 1985 Directive on Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities (UCITS).
