Association for Financial Markets in Europe

EU Legislative Interests

AFME follows all EU initiatives affecting wholesale financial markets and banks, including: Competitiveness Compass, Savings and Investment Union/Capital Markets Union; Market Integration and Supervision Package (MISP), Securitisation Reform, MIFID II/MIFIR; Retail Investment Strategy, Listings Act, ESAP, EMIR, bank and non-bank micro and macro prudential requirements; analysis of and measures related to the competitiveness of the banking sector, sustainable finance and measures related to climate and environmental risk, the Implementation and Simplification Agenda, including related Omnibus proposals such as the Sustainable Finance Omnibus and the Digital Omnibus; Clean Industrial Deal, Capital Requirements Regulation and Directive (CRR/CRD), Bank Recovery and Resolution; Financial Transactions Tax; withholding taxes, other taxation issues; Benchmarks Regulation; ; developments in the European System of Financial Supervision; CRAs; ESG Ratings Regulation, Corporate Governance issues; Shareholders’ Rights, Financial Collateral; Central Securities Depositories Regulation, T+1 settlement cycle, Corporate Insolvency Law Harmonisation, Market Abuse Regulation, Banking Union, EDIS; Implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation, the implementation of the AML/CFT legislative package, AML regulation and supervision, Innovation and Digital Finance issues (e.g., MiCA, DORA, FiDA, Data and AI Act, DLT Pilot Regime, etc.), Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), Affordable Energy Action Plan, EU-UK relationship.

Communication Activities

AFME engages with the EU institutions through a range of communication activities including events, publications, public communications, consultation responses, written communications and meetings. Please refer to our website for further details, available at http://www.afme.eu/

Interests Represented

Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members

Member Of

AFME is the European member of the Global Financial Markets Association (GFMA) a global alliance with the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) in the US, and the Asia Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (ASIFMA) in Asia. AFME is also a member of the following: Joint Money Laundering Steering Group, International Council of Securities Associations, European Parliamentary Financial Services Forum, Securities Houses Compliance Officers Group, European Capital Markets Institute, QED, European Issuers, Paris Europlace, Wirtschaftsrat der CDU, Wirtschaftsforum der SPD, FinanzaplatzFrankfurt, TheCityUK, Women in Banking and Finance, Financial Markets Law Committee. AFME engages with a large number of stakeholders including other trade associations, think tanks, academic institutions and events organisers. Further details of other entities with which AFME associates can be found on its website at www.afme.eu.

Organisation Members

A list of our members is available on our website at https://www.afme.eu/membership/members-directory/