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Dirty money infiltrating financial systems is a threat to financial stability and to the safety of our citizens. Just before summer, the EU Commission published an action plan on AML. Recent [FinCEN] revelations in the media have made this topic even more urgent.

The European Commission is carrying out a targeted consultation to collect views and opinions to feed into the establishment of an EU green bond standard.

The European Commission is today presenting a number of initiatives.

Don’t miss the article in the Wall Street Journal by Executive Vice President of the European Commission Valdis Dombrovskis and Heath Tarbert, Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

As part of the post-Covid-19 recovery strategy, the European Commission is today adopting a capital markets recovery package. The aim of the package is to make it easier for companies affected by the economic shock of the pandemic to raise equity capital on public markets. The package proposes targeted changes to capital market rules to ensure that capital markets can support the recovery by facilitating investments in the economy, allowing for the rapid re-capitalization of businesses, and increasing banks’ capacity to finance the recovery. Specifically, the proposal contains targeted amendments to MiFID II, the Prospectus regulation and the Securitisation Framework to help the recovery from the Covid-19 crisis with the support of financial markets.

The European Commission has welcomed a list of Best Practices agreed by the financial sector and consumer and business organisations to help further mitigate the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic. Published today, this list of best practices aims to ensure access to finance at this critical time for many European citizens and for small businesses in particular.

The amendments to the Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR) were proposed by the Commission on 28 April 2020, to ensure that banks continue to lend to citizens and businesses during the Coronavirus pandemic.

The event will be moderated by John Rega from Politico Europe, and will feature:

This Wednesday (17/06) the topic is: How InsurTech is changing the insurance sector.

The goal of the conference is to summarise the key takeaways gathered throughout the national events, discuss them with EU policy makers and lay the foundations for the new #DigitalFinanceEU strategy that will be announced in Q3 2020.

This Wednesday (27/05) the topic is 'Digital Sustainable Finance - how can digital finance support sustainability?'.

This week, on 19/05 – a Tuesday this time – the topic is 'Enabling a digital operational resilience framework for financial services'.

New Zealand and Singapore have joined the International Platform on Sustainable Finance

The European Commission has published detailed guidance on how coronavirus-related humanitarian aid can be sent to countries and areas around the world that are subject to EU sanctions. This guidance on Syria is the first in a series of comprehensive Q&As, which aims to give practical guidance on how to comply with EU sanctions when providing humanitarian aid, in particular medical assistance, to fight the coronavirus pandemic.

This Wednesday (13/05) the topic is 'Enabling an EU framework for markets in crypto-assets'.

The European Commission has today put forward a comprehensive approach to further strengthen the EU’s fight against money laundering and terrorist financing. It has published an ambitious and multifaceted action plan, setting out concrete measures that the Commission will take over the next 12 months to better enforce, supervise and coordinate the EU’s rules on combating money laundering and terrorist financing. The aim of this new, comprehensive approach is to shut down any remaining loopholes and remove any weak links in EU rules.

This Wednesday (06/05) the topic is 'Ensuring a technology-neutral and innovation-friendly regulatory framework'.

Commission adopts banking package to facilitate lending to households and businesses in the EU