Euro Area: Publication of Financial Sector Assessment Program Documentation-Technical Note on Capital Markets Union-Implications for Supervision and Institutional Arrangements

International Monetary Fund

No 2025/214, IMF Staff Country Reports from International Monetary Fund

Abstract: The European Union (EU) recently sought to give fresh impetus to longstanding efforts to grow and deepen its capital markets—the Capital Markets Union (CMU). Building on the earlier Financial Services Action Plan and work to remove barriers to consolidation and efficiency in post-trade arrangements, the European Commission has set out various legislative and non-legislative initiatives to enable easier access to capital, enhance the efficiency and scalability of EU capital markets, and by doing so reduce the extent of the dependence on bank financing. Fragmentation of capital markets in the euro area (EA) is driven by many factors including national differences in securities, corporate, tax and pensions laws, policies. These can create significant uncertainty, e.g., determining which law is applicable and how cross-border financial investments will be treated in insolvency, and barriers to cross-border provision of investments products. For the CMU to be successful these barriers will need to be reduced over time. However, the focus of this note is on proposals pertaining to the institutional arrangements and supervisory framework, including how to enable a safe transition towards centralizing supervision of at least some types of entity at the EA level.

Keywords: CMU initiative; D. CMU; FSAP finding; EU Member State equity markets; A. EU; EA capital markets; Capital markets; Financial sector stability; Financial Sector Assessment Program; Asset management; Europe (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 31
Date: 2025-07-25
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