Today, EFAMA has published its latest Monthly Statistical Release for March 2025.
Today, EFAMA has published its latest Monthly Statistical Release for March 2025.
EFAMA publishes recommendations for the SFDR review
Yesterday, EFAMA hosted asset management firms from across Europe to discuss how tokenisation is reshaping the industry at the Redefining assets: tokenisation and the future of investment
EFAMA supports the European Commission’s Omnibus Simplification Package as a crucial step towards reducing bureaucracy and enhancing EU competitiveness. While simplification is necessary, given the current geopolitical developments, it must not compromise the availability and quality of essential sustainable information for investors and asset managers. We, therefore, consider legal clarity and alignment across EU regulations essential to support the transition to a sustainable economy.
EFAMA publishes recommendations for the first Omnibus package
Investors would benefit from an EU legal framework with due diligence guidelines and reporting requirements for companies in the real economy. This framework should be consistent with the reporting requirements in the revised NFRD and the disclosures in the Sustainability-Related Disclosures regulation (SFDR). At the same time, any framework for supply chain due diligence should not impose a competitive disadvantage for EU companies.
EFAMA believes that ESMA’s draft ‘marketing communication’ Guidelines still require important clarifications to ensure full alignment between them and MiFID II’s Commission Delegated Regulation Article 44. This alignment is essential to ensure coherent rules for fund management companies and distributors. Unfortunately, parts of the proposed Guidelines are overly prescriptive and may unintentionally make some marketing materials vaguer or even inconsistent with local MiFID requirements for distributors.
EFAMA supports the main objectives of CSDR to increase the safety and efficiency of securities settlement, including:
- Shorter settlement periods,
- Prudential and supervisory requirements for CSDs and other institutions providing banking services ancillary to securities settlement,
- The imposition of a penalty regime under CSDR as an important step towards improving settlement efficiency in European capital markets.
A flawed review process not tackling the heart of the issue
EFAMA has always made it clear that a revision of the PRIIPs Regulatory Technical Standard (RTS) falls short of conducting a proper Level 1 review. A review that is explicitly required by the Level 1 Regulation and is overdue for more than one year.
The AIFMD is one of the pillars of EU regulation for investment funds, which will be crucial to the development of the Capital Markets Union (CMU) and the post Covid-19 economic recovery in the European Union.
EFAMA firmly supports the Commission’s proposed amend of the ELTIF Regulation, in line with its recently revamped “new” CMU.

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