EC: Speech by Mairead McGuinness: The EU's financial services strategy
Text of Mairead McGuinness’ speech of 22 June 2021 follows in which she discusses the EU’s priorities, which include completing the CMU, supervisory convergence and sustainable finance. She also discusses the post-Brexit environment with regard to financial services, stating “once the MoU is formally concluded, we will have to consider whether we can resume our financial services equivalence assessments. When we do resume our assessments, we would do so gradually, and on a case-by-case basis, taking into account the UK’s regulatory intentions and of course the EU’s interest”.
Last updated · 13 Mar 2026
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See allECB: Speech by Frank Elderson: Nature in decline, economy on the line – the importance of international cooperation for managing nature-related risks
Text of Frank Elderson’s speech of 9 March 2026 follows.
ESMA: Speech by Verena Ross
Text of Verena Ross’s speech of 5 March 2026 has now been published. Topics include: AI; cryptoassets; sustainable finance; T+1.
EC: Taxonomy Regulation – technical advice
DG FISMA has invited the ESAs to develop technical advice in order to inform the review of the Disclosures Delegated Act under the Taxonomy Regulation.
EC: CSRD/CS3D
The following has been published in the Official Journal: Directive (EU) 2026/470 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 February 2026 amending Directives 2006/43/EC, 2013/34/EU, (EU) 2022/2464 and (EU) 2024/1760 as regards certain corporate sustainability reporting requirements and certain corporate sustainability due diligence requirements.
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ECB: Sound credit, sustainable growth
Text of Sharon Donnery’s blog of 24 February 2025 on sustainable credit follows.