Financial literacy
What the EU is doing to promote financial literacy – and increase financial well-being and resilience.
Retail financial services
Commissioner’s corner
Ms McGuinness speaks at a recent roundtable on the distribution of retail investment products.
Retail investment
Commission adopts new rules that place the interests of consumers at the centre of retail investing.
Eurobarometer survey
How do European citizens use financial services across the EU27?
Commission launches a targeted consultation on options to enhance suitability and appropriateness assessments
21 February 2022
Targeted consultation: options to enhance suitability and appropriateness assessments
21.02.2022 – 21.03.2022
Commissioner’s corner
Ms McGuinness gives keynote speech at launch event for joint EU OECD-INFE financial competence framework.
Financial literacy: Commission and OECD-INFE publish joint framework to improve individuals’ financial skills
11 January 2022
Online event on financial literacy
The ‘Launch of the joint EU/OECD-INFE financial competence framework for adults’ will be taking place on Tuesday 25 January 2022, from 10:00 to 12:00 (CET). With keynote speeches by Commissioner Mairead McGuinness and OECD Secretary General Mathias Cormann. Don’t miss it!
EU Finance news in brief
Commission launches public consultation on the Mortgage Credit Directive review.
Public consultation on the review of the Mortgage Credit Directive
22.11.2021 – 28.02.2022
Call for applications for the Financial Services Users Group
The European Commission has recently opened a new call for applications, to find members for the Financial Services Users Group (FSUG). Members can include people representing the interests of consumers, retail investors or micro-enterprises, as well as individual experts with expertise in financial services from the consumer perspective. Deadline for first selection: 30 September 2021. Click on the ‘more’ button below to apply (under the ‘continuously open calls’ section).
Retail investment
What is the EU doing to help boost Europe’s relatively low participation levels in retail investment markets?
Take part in our consultation and help pave the way for the upcoming retail investment strategy
The Commission is preparing a retail investment strategy for the first half of 2022. In this context, it is seeking views on possible improvements to the existing retail investor protection rules to help it develop its future policies. We'd really like to hear from you!
Public consultation on FinTech: a more competitive and innovative European financial sector
23.03.2017 - 15.06.2017
Consumer Financial Services Action Plan
The Commission is aiming for a single market where financial services providers can easily offer their services across Europe and consumers get the best deals while being well protected.
The Commission launched a public consultation on FinTech: a more competitive and innovative European financial sector
23 March 2017
FinTech - and sixty years since the Treaty of Rome
New financial technologies are helping the EU reach an objective already set in the Treaty of Rome – achieving a single market for capital.