Financial Education
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:
Financial conglomerates
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 common acts in this area.
As part of its responsibilities the Joint Committee maintains and publishes the list of identified financial conglomerates as required under the Financial Conglomerates Directive (Directive 2002/87/EC).
List of financial conglomerates 2022
European Forum for Innovation Facilitators (EFIF)
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.
EU Digital Finance Platform and Innovation facilitators in the EU
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.
Find here the innovation facilitators in the EU
Innovation facilitator cross-border testing
Find here the procedural framework for innovation facilitator cross-border testing
EFIF Terms of Reference
For further information about the EFIF, download the Terms of Reference
Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR)
Regulation (EU) 2019/2088) (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. The delegated regulation was updated in 2023 and published by the European Commission in the Official Journal as Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/363. For the convenience of financial market participants preparing the financial product disclosures referred to in Articles 8, 9 and 11 of the SFDR, the three European Supervisory Authorities (EBA, EIOPA and ESMA) provide an editable version of the templates contained in that Regulation. Please note that the ESAs accept no responsibility or liability for any errors or omissions in the editable version. Only European Union documents published in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJ) are deemed authentic. For further information, please consult the legal notice of the OJ.
The European Supervisory Authorities 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.
