In brief
- The plan includes auto-enrolment pensions, tax incentives, and steps toward market integration.
- Oversight changes could give ESMA a role in supervising crypto and cross-border infrastructures.
- The push follows warnings on stalled reforms and comes amid debate over the digital euro.
The European Union is preparing a year-end push to expand pension savings and tighten oversight of markets, with plans that could hand its Paris watchdog new authority over crypto firms.
Speaking at the Eurofi Forum in Copenhagen on Thursday, Financial Services Commissioner Maria Luís Albuquerque said the package will cover pension auto-enrolment, tax incentives for savings, and steps to cut cross-border barriers in trading, alongside a debate over…
Sep 19 2025
