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Insight EU Finance Monitoring Weekly 27 – 31 October 2025

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This monitoring was originally published on 31 October 2025.

 

European Scaleup Fund

  • EU Commission advances the Savings and Investments Union with measures to mobilise insurers’ and banks’ capital for Europe’s future

  • Q&A: The European Scaleup Fund

  • Insurance Europe welcomes Solvency II amendments improving investment and competitiveness conditions

European Central Bank (ECB)

  • Monetary policy: Press conference by President Christine Lagarde and Vice-President Luis de Guindos

  • Governing Council decisions (beyond rate-setting)

  • Speech by Christine Lagarde at the Banca d’Italia official dinner in Florence

  • Survey on the Access to Finance of Enterprises: lending conditions tighten slightly

  • ECB Survey of Professional Forecasters – Q4 2025 results

  • Legal Working Paper No. 23: Human rights, the climate emergency, and the financial system

  • SESFOD: Credit terms and conditions in euro-denominated securities financing and OTC derivatives markets (September 2025 results)

  • Euro area bank interest rate statistics – September 2025

  • Economic Bulletin box: Main findings from contacts with non-financial companies

  • Letter from Piero Cipollone to MEP Aurore Lalucq on the next phase of the digital euro project

  • Digital Euro Preparation Phase – closing progress report

  • Euro area bank lending survey – Q3 2025

  • Survey on the Access to Finance of Enterprises – Q3 2025

ECB Banking Supervision

  • Keynote speech by Frank Elderson: Making supervision simpler – the role of supervisory guides

  • Speech by Anneli Tuominen: Bank governance in a changing risk landscape

Single Resolution Board (SRB)

  • The next crisis will happen one day or another, but the banking sector is much more resilient

European Stability Mechanism (ESM)

  • Pierre Gramegna addresses the Financial Street Forum conference in Beijing

Anti-Money Laundering / Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT)

  • EBA advises the Commission on the foundations of the new AML/CFT regime

  • EBA AML Standing Committee meets for the last time

Savings & Investments Union – Commission Engagements

  • Speech by Commissioner Albuquerque at DIGITALEUROPE’s Finance Executive Council

  • Visit to Moldova: high-level talks on accession and financial-sector reform

  • Speech by Commissioner Albuquerque at ANIA event: Savings and Investments Union – Achievements and Perspective

Fiscal Policy

  • Opening statement by Commissioner Dombrovskis before the Romanian Parliament’s Budget and EU Affairs Committees

Digital Euro

  • ECB: Eurosystem moves to next phase of the digital euro project

  • European Parliament draft reports:

    • Regulation establishing the digital euro (PE778.136v01-00)

    • Regulation on digital euro services for non-euro Member States (PE778.135v01-00)

    • Regulation on the legal tender of euro banknotes and coins (PE778.137v01-00)

Banking

  • EU Commission call for applications: Non-Performing Loans (NPL) Advisory Panel

Crypto Assets

  • Europol: Global experts step up cooperation against crypto-enabled crime

Financial Benchmarks

  • EU Commission adopts equivalence decision for New Zealand’s financial benchmarks

European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs)

  • 12th Joint ESA Consumer Protection Day

European Banking Authority (EBA)

  • EBA analysis: Differences in national loan-recovery outcomes reinforce the case for EU insolvency harmonisation

  • EBA Final Q&A (selected topics: SME supporting factor, market risk, liquidity disclosure)

  • Ongoing consultations:

    • Revised SREP and stress-testing Guidelines (EBA/CP/2025/21)

    • Revised Guidelines on internal governance under CRD

    • Draft RTS on resolution planning (EBA/CP/2025/19)

European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA)

  • Insurance Risk Dashboard: overall stability amid persistent tensions

  • Warning: fraudulent use of EIOPA name and logo

  • Solvency II Review consultations: valuation, ring-fenced funds, risk margin, matching adjustment, disclosure templates, liquidity powers

  • Call for Evidence on DC pensions toolkit

European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA)

  • Latest ESMA newsletter and data releases

  • Trading venues with highest bond turnover (CSDR cash penalties)

  • Quarterly bond liquidity assessment

  • Net short position thresholds for sovereign issuers

  • Compliance tables on MiCA market-abuse guidelines and crypto-asset qualification

  • Consultation on EMIR 3 draft RTS on participation requirements

EU Commission Register

  • Multiple delegated and implementing acts on benchmarks, investment-firm reporting, Solvency II updates, EMIR active account requirements

  • Commission communications on equity exposures, Poland RRF payment assessment, and restrictive measures

  • Series of Commission opinions under Article 19 of the EIB Statute

European Parliament Register

  • Digital Euro draft reports (see above)

  • ECON and BUDG committee highlights, dialogues with Commissioners and SRB Chair

  • Briefings and studies: AI Act interplay, tobacco tax reform, geopolitical risks for banks, Recovery and Resilience Facility report

  • Written answers on Russian crypto sanctions bypass, financial discrimination against cancer survivors, and Meta tax issues

  • Reports and recommendations on BEFIT, third-country tax cooperation agreements, transparency of interest representation, and European statistics regulation

EU Council Register

  • Draft Energy Taxation Directive recast – Presidency compromise text

  • Annotated agenda on Energy Taxation Directive revision

  • Council decision on external auditors of Suomen Pankki

  • Amendment to Regulation 648/2012 (OTC derivatives framework)

Bank for International Settlements (BIS)

  • Global liquidity and international banking statistics – end-June 2025

  • Research highlights: monetary policy transmission, systemic risks in life insurance, sustainable investing, stablecoin insurance, non-bank intermediation, and structural change in the U.S. economy

  • Speeches by Philip R. Lane, Claudia Buch, Michele Bullock, Jerome Powell, Luís Máximo dos Santos, and others

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

  • Staff-level agreement on Serbia’s Policy Coordination Instrument review

  • 2025 Financial Access Survey results

  • Working Papers: labour markets and migration in the Western Balkans; AI and the natural rate; sustainable debt assessment; global trade policy activity

  • Article IV mission: Grenada – concluding statement

United States

  • Speech at the Economic Growth and Regulatory Paperwork Reduction Act Outreach Meeting, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City

 

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