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.
As a principle, EFAMA supports every effort made to enhance financial market regulation which reinforces the stability of the financial system, of which EMIR is an important part.
Prior to replying to the consultation, we wish to make the following general remarks.
Firstly, we fully support the points raised by ESMA that recognizes that several types of counterparties active in the OTC derivatives markets are facing numerous issues in relation to the access to central clearing due to:
The European Banking Federation, Insurance Europe, the European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA) and the European Structured Investment Products Association reconfirm their full support for the objectives of the PRIIPs initiative. In light of consumer protection, the PRIIP Key Information Document (KID) can be a valuable tool enabling retail investors to compare products and, hence, make informed investment decisions.
EFAMA would like to make positive use of the opportunity to comment on the Commission recommendation dated 28 January 2016 on the implementation of measures against tax treaty abuse as well as on the implementation of TRACE for the purpose of simplifying withholding tax (“WHT”) procedures.
EFAMA welcomes the opportunity to provide comments to the ESMA Consultation Paper on the technical advice to the European Commission on the Benchmarks Regulation. EFAMA also welcomes a number of clarifications and improved points that ESMA is providing in its Consultation and draft Technical Advice since its previous Discussion Paper.
EFAMA strongly supports the objective to provide retail investors with a key information document (KID) for all packaged retail and insurance-based investment products (PRIIPs). It is important that investors and their advisers throughout Europe are given meaningful, comprehensible and comparable information to feel confident about investing and to make sound investment decisions.

Discover the 6 reasons why your organisation should become a member of EFAMA.
Our members enjoy significant benefits including the opportunity to shape the industry positions, get first-hand access to regulatory and political intelligence, engage with industry peers and policymakers, and take part in EFAMA events.
Our three membership categories cater to the wide range of organisations that make up and support the investment management industry in Europe.