List of recommendations show what is needed to ensure a successful tape.
Data
In the modern economy, data is increasingly becoming a strategic asset. This is particularly true for the asset management industry, where data forms the backbone of the daily activities and internal processes necessary to guarantee best practices in portfolio management.
Asset managers are major users of a variety of data, including market data, index data and, increasingly, ESG data. EFAMA advocates for, and seeks to support members’ access to, high-quality, standardised and comparable data at a fair price. EFAMA also encourages the creation of a well-structured, reasonably priced consolidated tape fed by all trading venues and systematic internalisers for all financial instruments.
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Data
21 October 2025
Market data users have identified important gaps in plans for EU consolidated tape
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Data
18 April 2024
Cross-cutting issues on EU data
The competitiveness of EU asset managers is heavily reliant on the quality, stability, cost-efficiency and predictability of the rules under which they operate.
As part of our recommendations to make competitiveness a central element of all EU policies, we highlight the importance of tackling anti-competitive market practices and the ever-increasing cost of various types of data.
Press Release
Data
Sustainable Finance
EU Taxonomy
Sustainability-related Disclosures (SFDR)
Sustainability reporting (CSRD)
01 December 2021
The European Single Access Point: a powerful tool for investors to assess the ESG performance of companies
EFAMA sees the European Commission’s proposal for the creation of a European Single Access Point (ESAP) as a crucial step in addressing the limited availability and scattered nature of financial and sustainability-related entity information at EU level.
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Press Release
Capital Markets
Capital Markets Union
Data
03 November 2020
An appropriately constructed Consolidated Tape could help to build deeper and more open capital markets in Europe
EFAMA and EFSA welcome the publication of a Market Structure Partners Study on the Creation of an EU Consolidated Tape which addresses the challenges, demand, benefits and proposed architecture for consolidating European financial market data.
Press Release
Competitiveness
Data
EU Fund regulation
Money Market Funds
08 October 2020
European Money Market Funds navigated the Covid 19 crisis successfully
The European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA) has published its second Market Insights highlighting the major trends shaping the European Money Market Fund (MMF) landscape since the entry into force of the Money Market Fund Regulation (MMFR).
Press Release
Data
20 June 2020
Joint associations Global Memo on Market Data Costs
In a report released today, the International Council of Securities Associations (ICSA), the European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA), and the Managed Funds Association (MFA) call for the implementation of internationally recognized principles to address excessively high market data fees and unfair licensing provisions.
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Publication
Competitiveness
Data
Management Companies
01 December 2011
Key Figures Asset Management Report 2011
Publication
Data
EU Fund regulation
04 October 2011
Fund Fees in Europe: TER Report
A report commissioned by the European Fund and Asset Management Association published on 4 October 2011 aims to give investors greater transparency and understanding of cost breakdown within the Total Expense Ratio ("TER") of European mutual funds.
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