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This Wednesday (29/04) the topic is ‘Open Finance – promoting a more data-driven financial sector’

DG FISMA is sending out a call to action to the European financial community to build digital finance solutions to help tackle the Coronavirus crisis. The best projects will be provided with follow-up support by the European Innovation Council. Help us find ways to:

This Wednesday (22/04) the topic is A Digital Single Market for financial services.

Indonesia and Norway are joining the International Platform on Sustainable Finance (IPSF).

The Technical Expert Group reports provide input to develop final standards on climate change mitigation and climate change adaptation, which are essential to mobilise much-needed financing to make Europe climate neutral by 2050.

Commission welcomes common understanding between negotiators on the key elements of an EU-wide classification system for sustainable investments (taxonomy).

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Commission welcomes Member States’ agreement on establishing the first classification scheme for environmentally sustainable activities.

Building the capital markets union remains a key objective for the next Commission. But there are still a number of challenges to meet before it can become a reality. In this context, the European Commission is organising a conference focused on how technology could drive the future of financial reporting within the capital market union. The European Commission is developing the European Financial Transparency Gateway (EFTG), a pilot project exploring ways to solve the problem of data fragmentation with distributed ledger technologies. The event is organised in collaboration with Deloitte.

Efforts to reduce risks in the EU banking sector are bearing fruit, according to new figures released by the European Commission.

Weren’t able to join us for the LIVE CHAT with the European Commission’s sustainable finance expert group on Tuesday?

The European Commission's sustainable finance technical expert group (TEG) will answer your questions tomorrow starting at 10:30 CET.

The European Commission’s technical expert group (TEG) on sustainable finance and the community of practice in financial research (CoPFiR) are organising a two-day event on ‘Promoting Sustainable Finance’. The aim is to allow researchers to promote the exchange of ideas and knowledge between academics, professionals and policy makers on how to mobilise the necessary financing for green and sustainable investments. To provide a broad view and to include various approaches to the topic of sustainable finance, the organisers are calling for the submission of policy-relevant research papers.

Today, the Commission takes stock of the latest developments as regards risk reduction in the banking sector and progress towards an even more integrated and stable EU financial system that promotes investments, jobs and growth.

So far, about 1 300 people have responded to the online survey on our information tools – including the Finance newsletter. If you haven't done so yet, but would like a chance to give us your feedback, there's still time! It only takes 5 minutes to fill in the questionnaire and give us an idea of what you think we're doing well, and what we might do better. Our aim is to bring you the information you want – in the best and most interesting way.

So far, about 600 people have responded to the online survey on our information tools – including the Finance newsletter. If you haven't done so yet, but would like a chance to give us your feedback, there's still time! It only takes 5 minutes to fill in the questionnaire and give us an idea of what you think we're doing well, and what we might do better. Our aim is to bring you the information you want – in the best and most interesting way.

In order to further improve how we communicate what the EU is doing in the area of banking and finance, we are carrying out another online survey on our information tools – the banking and finance web pages on the EUROPA website, our Twitter account and also the Finance Newsletter. We'd like to ask you to take 5 minutes to fill in the questionnaire, to give us an idea of what you think we're doing well, and what we might do better. Our aim is to bring you the information you want – in the best and most interesting way.

The European Commission is today putting forward a whole series of proposals that form part of the EU's capital markets union (CMU) flagship initiative. The Commission is following up on its sustainable finance action plan, and wants to further protect consumers. Two other initiatives would create more funding opportunities especially for SMEs and strengthen the resilience of the EU economy.

The Brussels Economic Forum is the flagship annual economic event of the European Commission. It brings together European and international policymakers, opinion leaders, academics, civil society and business leaders to debate hot economic topics and share new perspectives on Europe's economic challenges.

The European Commission is today proposing to make cross-border payments in euro cheaper across the whole EU. This will eliminate the barriers that prevent consumers and businesses in non-euro countries from taking full advantage of the single market under the same conditions as those in the euro area. Since the introduction of the cross-border payments regulation in 2001, consumers and businesses in the euro area have benefited from very low fees for cross-border payments in euro. With the new proposal, all Europeans will be able to transact cross-border, in euro, at the same cost as they would pay for a domestic transaction.