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As the EU is setting its priorities for the next five years, a rigorous assessment of the Capital Markets Union (CMU) and a new

The European Union needs an action plan to stimulate market finance across EU markets.

The European Capital Markets Institute (ECMI) is calling for a submission of research papers in the areas of fixed income markets and infrastructure investment. A committee of academics and international experts will select the best paper and award the author(s) a €5,000 prize and the opportunity to present the findings at the 2019 ECMI Annual Conference in Brussels on 6 November 2019.

Companies, investors and regulators continue to face tensions between short-term and long-term goals and incentives, tangi

Understanding how and why individual ESG components can impact corporate performance, and consequently portfolio construction, security selec

Three key building blocks, 6+1 key areas of priority, 33+9 policy actions. Has the CMU project been successful in delivering deeper and more integrated capital markets in the EU? The opinions on the progress (or lack thereof) are certainly mixed. However, CMU remains more relevant than ever for EU-27. BUT it needs re-branding, re-focusing, new energy and momentum, as well as political support.

Britain’s departure from the EU poses challenges for European capital markets with far-reaching implications. Perhaps the most important is the call for full integration and the need to create a single unified capital market. The CMU project has been focused on the development of capital markets, mainly at national level, as alternatives to banking, and less on actions that will remove cross-border obstacles (e.g. harmonization of insolvency laws, taxation and company laws).