Shareholders’ role in corporate governance has evolved in recent decades, even in jurisdictions where shareholder influence is limited.
The Draghi report has underscored the need for an additional €800 billion in annual investments from 2025 to 2030 in order to maintain the EU’s global competitiveness.
Whereas EMIR 3.0’s main focus was geared towards the Active Account Requirement and whether or not to centralise the supervision of EU CCPs with the European Securities and Marke
European banking supervision will have been operational for ten years come November 2024.
The EU legislative and regulatory agenda is changing the scope of audit.
Crypto currency matters are seemingly in the news every day, but the EU’s new tailor-made regulatory regime is not.
Offshore tax non-compliance and lost revenues on hidden assets overseas, are long-standing issues.
On 7 December, the European Commission presented the Listing Act package which contains three proposals.
In 2021, economic losses from natural catastrophes were USD 270 billion.
The size of EU investment funds and capital markets lags well behind the US.
Europe has a high rate of savings and using those savings to increase productive investment is the right approach.
Now that the EU’s post-pandemic recovery programme is on course, the priority should be to increase private sector investments.