The 2025 ECMI Annual Conference will tackle the most pressing structural and strategic challenges facing Europe’s capital markets. This year’s edition will focus on three interlinked priorities: unlocking long-term retail investment across fragmented savings systems, rethinking supervisory...

The conference will bring together experts, decision and policy makers, scholars, researchers and think tanks from all over the globe to discuss major regulatory challenges, priorities and opportunities for the financial sector to contribute to global and sustainable growth. We are looking for...

Theme: Is Europe’s Capital Markets Union now in sight? - Panel debate: Mobilising funding for sustainable recovery; - In conversation with: Credit rating agencies back in the spotlight?; - Panel debate: Easing financing conditions for corporates.

ECMI encourages the submission of empirical research papers with relevant implications for the European capital markets legislative framework. Topics: - Capital markets (development, integration and financial stability); - Impact of monetary policies on capital markets; - Corporate bonds markets...

The Task Force will engage with a diverse group of stakeholders to think through the priorities for the next European Commission and Parliament. It will focus on three main topics: - Taking stock of what has been achieved so far since the adoption of the CMU Action Plan in September 2015; - Identify...

This conference brings together high-level experts from academia, from regulators and from banks coming from the West and from the East to discuss differences and similarities of financial markets in the East and the West and their needs for regulation.

This year's conference will discuss what are the long-term implications for Europe’s financial system of the current policy mix and governance structure. In the year of the Brexit discussion, the mix of regulatory and monetary policies is crucial to foster integration and to promote the...

This year's conference will discuss how EU institutions can set long-term goals in the presence of highly volatile market conditions. The action plan for the creation of a capital markets union has drawn attention to a renewed regulatory and institutional design to support greater financial and...

This year's conference will discuss options for European capital markets to revert financial disintegration and relaunch a new plan of reforms for European capital markets. The conference will also assess the impact of financial reforms on European financial markets integration, taking stock of...

The ECMI Annual Conference brings together international experts in capital markets from industry, policy making and academia for a full day of discussion in Brussels. This year’s conference is structured around four sessions focusing on the following topics: the outlook for the euro area, the...