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On 15 October 2025, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) and the European Banking Authority (EBA) presented their report with proposals for revising the Investment Firms...

The European Central Bank (ECB), acting in its role as the lead in the Single Supervisory Mechanism's (SSM) pillar of the Eurozone's Banking Union has been increasingly clear ...

Every year the President of the European Commission presents an annual State of the Union (SOTEU) report followed by a speech to the European Parliament.

Since the 2008 global financial crisis (GFC), supervisory monitoring of credit origination and servicing standards as well as consumer protection compliance has increased and COVID-19 presented the next catalyst.

On 19 March 2025, the European Commission (the Commission) unveiled its long-awaited Savings and Investments Union (SIU) strategy.

The EU's Market in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCAR) became fully operational as of 30 December 2024.

Not being able to access one's own brokerage account via an app or by other electronic means can be frustrating…even more so when speed may be of the essence especially when wanting...

Since the 2008 global financial crisis, a number of regulatory policymakers and supervisors have used legislative and non-legislative means to push financial services firms

Regulated complaints, i.e., complaints submitted by clients (mostly consumers) of financial services firms are a fundamental right enshrined in EU law as well as Member States'...

In addition to the proposal (published September 2020), aimed at regulated financial services providers, for an EU Regulation on digital operational resilience for financial services, the EC in December 2020 proposed an "all-hazards" framework ...

On 31 March 2022, the Official Journal of the European Union published Decision (EU) 2022/514 of the European Central Bank on the total amount of annual supervisory fees levied under the single supervisory mechanism for 2021.

The Financial Action Task Force is the organisation that sets global standards (Recommendations) to prevent money laundering and financing of terrorism as well as financial crime generally.

As discussed in extensive Thought Leadership coverage from our EU RegCORE as well as wider coverage across the PwC Network, the EU's Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCAR) marks...

As discussed in comprehensive coverage available from PwC Legal and PwC teams across our network, the EU's Regulation 2022/2554...

The case was brought before the ECJ in the form of a preliminary ruling. The court was faced with the question of whether the business activities of the plaintiff, Betaal Garant Nederland CV (Betaal)...

COVID-19 has had a transformative impact on traditional office workspace arrangements. Despite some initial (very welcome) improvements to the COVID-19 outlook in Europe, future variants and mutations...

The BaFin published Circular (Rundschreiben) on high-risk third countries under money laundering aspects

As set out in an earlier Client Alert, the EU's Listing Act package was formally adopted in October 2024, published in the EU's Official Journal (OJ) on 14 November 2024 and entered into force on 4 December 2024.