The European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA) has today published its European Quarterly Statistical Release for the first quarter of 2025.
The European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA) has today published its European Quarterly Statistical Release for the first quarter of 2025.
Today, EFAMA has published its latest Monthly Statistical Release for March 2025.
EFAMA publishes recommendations for the SFDR review
Yesterday, EFAMA hosted asset management firms from across Europe to discuss how tokenisation is reshaping the industry at the Redefining assets: tokenisation and the future of investment
EFAMA supports the European Commission’s Omnibus Simplification Package as a crucial step towards reducing bureaucracy and enhancing EU competitiveness. While simplification is necessary, given the current geopolitical developments, it must not compromise the availability and quality of essential sustainable information for investors and asset managers. We, therefore, consider legal clarity and alignment across EU regulations essential to support the transition to a sustainable economy.
EFAMA is the representative association for the European investment management industry. EFAMA represents through its 28 member associations and 62 corporate members EUR 21 trillion in assets under management of which EUR 12.6 trillion managed by 56,000 investment funds at end 2015. Just over 30,000 of these funds were UCITS (Undertakings for Collective Investments in Transferable Securities) funds, with the remaining 25,900 funds composed of AIFs (Alternative Investment Funds). Our industry provides significant and stable flows of finance to the European economy.
EFAMA welcomes the opportunity to provide comments to the ESMA Consultation Paper on the draft technical standards under the Benchmark Regulation. EFAMA also welcomes a number of clarifications that ESMA is providing in this Consultation since its previous Discussion Paper.
EFAMA supports every efforts made to enhance financial markets regulation which reinforces the stability and the transparency of the financial system.
In that perspective, EFAMA welcomes the opportunity to comment on the ESMA consultation paper on the Draft RTS and ITS under SFTR and amendments to related EMIR RTS.
Prior to replying to the consultation, we wish to make the following general remarks
EFAMA, welcomes the opportunity to comment on the ESMA Discussion Paper (“DP”) on the trading obligation for derivatives under MiFIR.
As a principle, EFAMA supports every effort made to enhance financial market regulation which reinforces the stability of the financial system, of which MiFIR is an important part.
Prior to replying to the consultation, we wish to make the following general remarks.
EFAMA welcomes the opportunity to respond to the European Commission’s consultation envisaging the review of the EU macro-prudential policy framework. The consultation paper emphasises the review of the existing prudential framework built around the systemic nature of credit institutions and at the cornerstone of which lies the CRD/CRR, accompanied by the ESRB Regulation and the foundation of a Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) for a Banking Union, in turn revolving around the ECB.
EFAMA welcomes the opportunity to provide its comments on the Good Practices to be adopted by IOSCO for the Termination of Investment Funds. We agree that the decision to terminate a fund can have significant impact on investors in terms of the costs associated with such an action, or the ability for investors to redeem their holdings during the termination process. In this regard, even in the context of a fund’s voluntary termination, asset managers must abide by their fiduciary obligation to act in the best interest of their investors.

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