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EU Legislation

BANKING & FINANCE

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A. Capital Market Union

  • A single EU market for capital to boost jobs and growth
  • Capital Markets Union Action Plan
  • Covered bonds and covered bond public supervision​

B. Financial Supervision and Risk Management

Legislative News
  • Sustainability-related disclosures in the financial services sector
  • Banking Union
    • Single Supervisory Mechanism Framework regulation
  •  Supervision of financial institutions
    • Credit rating agencies
    • Supervision of financial conglomerates
    • Prudential supervision of investment firms
    • Reporting of supervisory financial information
    • European Banking Committee
    • European Banking Authority (EBA)
    • European Systemic Risk Board
    • European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA)
    • European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA)
    •  ECB Banking Supervision
      • Failing banks and investment firms: rules and procedures
      • Implementation of the Eurosystem monetary policy framework
      • Infringement procedures in cases of non-compliance with statistical reporting requirements
      • Powers of the European Central Bank to impose sanctions
      • Eurosystem procurement framework
      • European Central Bank – close cooperation within the Single Supervisory Mechanism with non-euro EU Member States
      • Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) – Supervisory fees
      • Single supervisory mechanism framework regulation
      • Systemically important payment systems (SIPS)
      • The European Central Bank’s role in supervising banks
      • The European Central Bank (ECB)
      • Supervising banks' health: ECB accountability and transparency
  •  Managing risks to banks and financial institutions
    • Failing banks and investment firms: rules and procedures
    • Making critical entities more resilient
    • Liquidity coverage requirement for credit institutions
    • Establishing bank resolution funds
    • EU notification procedure for UCITS
    • State aid: European Union financial crisis rules for banks
    • Reorganisation and winding-up of credit institutions
    • Prudential requirements of investment firms
    • Prudential requirements for credit institutions and investment firms
    • Crisis management in the financial sector
    • Digital operational resilience for the financial sector
    • Deposit guarantee schemes
    • Banks and investment firms – prudential supervision
    • Addressing troubled financial institutions’ problems​

C. Consumer finance and payments

  • Digital operational resilience for the financial sector​​
  •  Consumer finance
    • Buying residential immovable property – rules on loans
    • Key information about investment products
    • Deposit guarantee schemes
    • Consumer credit agreements (until 2026)
    • Consumer credit agreements (2023)
  •  Payment services
    • Fees for card-based payments
    • Opening/switching bank accounts and information on fees
    • Trans-European automated real-time gross settlement express transfer system (TARGET)
    • Electronic money: business and prudential supervision
    • Single Euro Payments Area Regulation
    • Revised rules for payment services in the EU
    • Cross-border payments in the EU
  •  Digital finance
    • Digital operational resilience for the financial sector
    • Market infrastructures based on distributed ledger technology
    • European crypto-assets regulation (MiCA)

D. Financial markets, financial instruments

  •  Securities markets
    • Admission of securities to official stock-exchange listing and information to be published on those securities
    • Markets in financial instruments regulation (MiFIR)
    • Improving securities settlement in the EU
    • Hedge funds and private equity funds – rules for managers
    • Preventing market abuse in financial markets
    • Issuers of securities – more transparent information
    • Transparent securities financing transactions
    • EU rules on over-the-counter derivatives contracts, central counterparties and trade repositories
    • Protecting investors when an investment firm fails
    • Prospectus to be published when securities are offered to the public or admitted to trading on a regulated market
    • Simpler, more transparent and more standardised securitisation
    • Short selling of securities
    • Prudential requirements of investment firms
    • Strengthening the global competitiveness of EU investment funds
    • Criminal sanctions for market abuse
    • Better regulated and transparent financial markets​
  •  Investment funds
    • Money market funds
    • Fund mergers and master-feeder structures relating to undertakings for collective investment in transferable securities (UCITS)
    • Hedge funds and private equity funds – rules for managers
    • Key information about investment products
    • UCITS: organisational requirements and rules of conduct
    • Ensuring accuracy and integrity of benchmarks
    • European social entrepreneurship funds
    • European crowdfunding service providers for business
    • European venture capital funds
    • Rules on the obligations of depositaries for EU investment funds
    • Strengthening the global competitiveness of EU investment funds
    • Cross-border distribution of collective investment undertakings​
  •  Post-trade services
    • Financial collateral arrangements - improving legal clarity
    • Improving securities settlement in the EU
    • EU rules on over-the-counter derivatives contracts, central counterparties and trade repositories
    • Recovery and resolution of central counterparties
    • Settlement finality in payment and securities settlement systems
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E. Capital movements

  • Common system of taxation applicable in the case of parent companies and subsidiaries of different European Union Member States
  • Purchasing property in other EU countries
  • Free movement of capital in the EU
  • Framework for credit servicers and credit purchasers
  • Effects of foreign legislation on the EU’s financial interests​

F. Insurance and pensions

  • Export credit insurance
  • Managing collective retirement schemes – occupational pension funds
  • Insurance and reinsurance
  • Insurance and occupational pensions: advisory committee
  • Disaster insurance
  • Civil liability insurance for motor vehicles

G. Company reporting and auditing

  • ​Accounting documents of branches of foreign credit and financial institutions
  • International financial reporting standards (IFRS) adopted by the European Union
  • International accounting standards – IAS regulation
  • Insurance companies: annual accounts
  • The statutory audit – ensuring accurate company financial statements
  • Rules for statutory audit of public-interest entities
  • Disclosure of non-financial and diversity information by large companies and groups
  • Annual accounts of banks and other financial institutions
Sources: European Union, http://www.europa.eu/, 1995-2025, 

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