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Norway’s oil fund calls for urgent reform of European capital markets
- Norges Bank Investment Management urged unified supervision of European capital markets in a letter to the European Commission in June 2025.
- This call follows the European Commission’s targeted consultation launched in April 2025 to integrate EU capital markets under the Savings and Investments Union strategy adopted in March 2025.
- NBIM highlighted legal uncertainty, fragmented regulation, and lack of a single market regulator as impediments to market dynamism and investment opportunities in Europe.
- Adam Farkas, AFME CEO, said the EU must focus on “targeted, evidence-based policy proposals” that grow demand and uphold competition without imposing costly, disruptive changes.
- The recommendations imply that simplifying regulation and unifying supervision could strengthen Europe’s capital markets and attract global capital amid shifting investor sentiment.
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Structural change won’t solve market fragmentation, industry bodies warn - Global Trading
Market structure change is not the way to integrate European capital markets, industry bodies have argued, warning that such changes would give an impression of instability in the region. Responding to the European Commission’s (EC) proposals on the integration of EU capital markets, AFME stated: “Any radical changes to microstructure would be highly undesirable and risk portraying the EU as being in a state of constant regulatory flux. Especial…
Francisco Uría Market Consensus (KPMG's Global Responsible Banking and Securities Markets Company) The European Union, despite the high standard of living that guarantees its aggregate prosperity, has long been experiencing a problem of lack of competitiveness that results in lower growth rates than its major economic rivals, and especially from the United States and China. A similar problem arises in terms of innovation where, either due to th…
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