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ARTICLE · 28 MARCH 2025

Looking Ahead To The AFM's Supervision Agenda For 2025

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In the beginning of this year, the Dutch Financial Markets Authority (Autoriteit Financiële Markten, AFM) published its 2025 supervisory agenda which elaborates further on the developments...

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Martijn Schoonewille
Martijn Schoonewille
Menno Baks
Menno Baks
Roderik Boogaard
Roderik Boogaard
Joyce Kerkvliet
Joyce Kerkvliet
Wendy Pronk
Wendy Pronk
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Qury Van Vliet
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Rosalie Tielens
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Anne Remmers
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In the beginning of this year, the Dutch Financial Markets Authority (Autoriteit Financiële Markten, AFM) published its 2025 supervisory agenda which elaborates further on the developments signalled in the AFM trend report 2025. The AFM has identified four main focus areas for its supervision, namely (i) financial services, (ii) capital markets, (iii) asset management and (iv) accounting and reporting. This blog outlines the key developments identified by the AFM and the focus areas for its supervision in 2025.

The AFM has announced that compliance with DORA requirements by trading platforms and proprietary traders will be supervised continuously, especially focusing on incident reporting, the outsourcing register, and assessing compliance in the context of license applications.

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