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Securitisation has become a revealing test of Europe’s capital markets ambitions. Both the EU and the UK are revisiting their securitisation frameworks in the name of growth, competitiveness, and better‑functioning markets. That focus is well placed: a healthy securitisation market is a critical mechanism for freeing up bank balance sheets, supporting lending, and mobilising long‑term capital.

The ECB's recent blog flawed premise assumes that large asset managers are systemically risky based on size and cross‑border reach, and uses that flawed assumption to justify inappropriate, bank‑style supervision and macroprudential rules.

Following the political agreement reached on the EU’s Retail Investment Strategy, the Investment Company Institute today issued a statement from Tracey Wingate, Chief Global Affairs Officer.

A new report from ICI, "Ongoing Charges for UCITS in the European Union, 2024", finds that average ongoing charges for equity and fixed-income UCITS have declined significantly since 2013.

The Investment Company Institute submitted a joint letter with the Swiss Finance Council and the Bank Policy Institute on the current review of the Securitisation Framework. Read more in the comment...

ICI submitted a letter to the European Securities and Markets Authority’s on its call for evidence on a comprehensive approach for the simplification of financial transaction reporting and discussion paper on the integrated collection of funds’ data.

Securitisation should be one of Europe’s most powerful financial tools. The benefits are clear: liquidity creation, risk transfer, capital relief, funding diversification, tailored risk-return profiles, and deeper, more efficient markets. And yet, securitisation remains regretfully underused in the EU—constrained by regulatory choices that continue to suffocate a market with enormous untapped potential.