Capital Markets Union Content

September 24, 2024—ICI President and CEO Eric Pan released a statement regarding Senator Tim Scott’s (R-SC), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, introduction of the Empowering Main Street in America Act. The bill package includes the...

Capital markets union is essential to the success of the European project. Vibrant capital markets efficiently channel investment to companies and, with historically higher long-term rates of return compared to those offered by bank accounts, are an unequivocal engine of household...

The EU Retail Investment Strategy (RIS) aims to advance the Capital Markets Union (CMU) and empower retail investors to save and invest more effectively, including through UCITS and similar products. One important element of the European Commission’s RIS proposal is a focus on “value...

The recently released EU Retail Investment Strategy (RIS) aims to advance the Capital Markets Union (CMU) and empower retail investor participation in the capital markets, including through UCITS and similar products, with a package of proposed legislative changes. ICI Global strongly...

ICI Global welcomes progress on the Capital Markets Union (CMU) and is committed to working with policymakers to ensure the CMU creates new opportunities for EU citizens to participate in Europe's capital markets.

High-Level Forum Report on Capital Markets Union Rightly Focuses on Potential of Retail Investment Washington, DC; 10 June 2020—Patrice Bergé-Vincent, ICI Global managing director, issued the following statement in response to the release of the report from the High-Level Forum on the...

Before COVID-19, the region’s economy already was struggling, with growth of just 0.1 percent in the fourth quarter of 2019. Now, EU policymakers are warning that, unless the pandemic eases rapidly, the European economy could contract by 8 to 12 percent or more.