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After Brexit, the UK financial sector will lose access to the Single Market under the various passport regimes. While equivalence rules offer some alternative to passporting, they are available only for certain regulated activities. Equivalence decisions can also be withdrawn unilaterally by the authority granting them, be that the UK or the European Commission. There are also concerns about the increasing politicisation of the process. Given the UK’s departure from the EU, and its stance against necessarily maintaining strict alignment or rules, the question arises how the respective regulatory autonomy of the EU and UK can be maintained while continuing to recognise the equivalence of each other’s regimes. What additional regulatory and supervisory arrangements might be put in place alongside the existing equivalence regimes?

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) – in particular those that are young, innovative and have risky projects – face minima

After Brexit the UK financial industry will lose access to the Single Market under the EU passport regime. To what extent can equivalence replace the passport after Brexit?

Due to multiple reasons – savings rates/net financial wealth, market structure and access, investor preferences/behavioural aspects, regulato

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