AFME, EBAN, and 10 other organisations published the fifth edition of the “Capital Markets Union – Key Performance Indicators” report. Over the last five years, this report has tracked the progress of Europe’s capital markets against nine key performance indicators.
The 5th CMU progress report finds that the EU as a whole is falling further behind other jurisdictions in terms of its global attractiveness as a place for businesses to access deep pools of capital and go public. While there have been some considerable policy achievements over the last five years, including the EU maintaining its global leadership on sustainable finance and improving its FinTech regulatory ecosystem, our report shows there are several obstacles hampering the progress of the CMU.