The EFIF provides a platform for supervisors to meet regularly to share experiences from engagement with firms through innovation facilitators (regulatory sandboxes and innovation hubs), to share technological expertise, and to reach common views on the regulatory treatment of innovative products, services and business models, overall boosting bilateral and multilateral coordination.
The EFIF was established further to the January 2019  Joint ESA report on regulatory sandboxes and innovation hubs which identified a need for action to promote greater coordination and cooperation between innovation facilitators to support the scaling up of FinTech across the single market. 

The EU Digital Finance Platform is a new collaborative space bringing together industry and public authorities. Among other functionalities, such as the European fintech map, it enables the cross-border testing framework. You will find here the innovation facilitators in the EU: 

For further information on the procedural framework for cross-border testing click here.

For further information about the EFIF, see the Terms of Reference.

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The Joint Committee acts as a forum for the exchange of supervisory information, experiences and practices on financial conglomerates, through which the ESAs develop joint positions and agree on common acts in this area.

As part of its responsibilities, the Joint Committee maintains and publishes a list of identified financial conglomerates as required under the Financial Conglomerates Directive (Directive 2002/87/EC).

List of financial conglomerates 2021 

 

List of financial conglomerates for previous years 

The European Supervisory Authorities (EBA, EIOPA and ESMA - ESAs) promote transparency, simplicity and fairness in the market for consumer financial products or services, including by reviewing and coordinating financial literacy and education initiatives by the competent authorities. The three ESAs closely cooperate in the area of Financial Education in order to maximise the impact of their respective efforts.

Joint projects in 2022 include:

• High level conference on Financial Education
• Joint ESAs thematic repository on financial education and digitalisation initiatives of National Competent Authorities (NCAs)
• Joint ESAs thematic report based on the analysis of the information collated in the thematic repository

 

The Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation sets out ESG disclosure requirements for a broad range of financial market participants, financial advisers and financial products. The European Commission has published in the Official Journal the Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/1288. In connection to the latter, the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) have made available the annexes (Annex I | Annex II | Annex III | Annex IV | Annex V) in an electronic format allowing for easier access to the templates for financial markets participants preparing for the application of the Regulation from 1 January 2023. 

The ESAs have also published an updated supervisory statement on the application of the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation and a statement providing clarifications on the draft Regulatory Technical Standards issued under SFDR.