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EuropeanIssuers, representing the interests of publicly quoted companies across Europe,
organised its annual EuropeanIssuers Capital Markets Webinar Series, addressing the EU
regulatory developments that are affecting European listed companies.
Around 250 participants watched the webinars live. The webinars gathered broad cross-
sectorial company representatives of many European leading corporations as well as
regulators, consultants, stock exchanges, banks and financial press.
EuropeanIssuers Secretary General Florence Bindelle commented: “In the current recovery
context, it is highly important that the EU financial regulations make the access to capital
markets easier and less burdensome. Ensuring a favourable EU financial regulatory framework
would help fostering the competitiveness of our companies and ease access to long term
capital. Our webinar sessions provided a platform for issuers to discuss the EU initiatives and
the challenges they are facing, with the EU institutions and other key market participants.”
The first webinar: ‘How Can the Capital Markets Union New Action Plan Boost Europe's
Economic Recovery?’ discussed the action points the European Commission has laid out for
the upcoming years with a special focus on primary and secondary equity markets in the EU
and how to provide a better environment for listing of companies of different sizes.
Panellist
from the session, Adam Kostyál, Senior Vice President at Nasdaq, said: “Through the
pandemic, markets across Europe have stayed open and we have even seen record number of
listings, illustrating the timeliness of this webinar in discussing the important role capital
markets play for companies’ growth and the economic recovery. We at Nasdaq find it very
valuable to be involved with the EuropeanIssuers audience sharing views on the way forward.”
Regarding the Capital Markets Union, EuropeanIssuers has long advocated for the need to
focus on all companies, not only SMEs, as bearers of burdensome requirements, and the need
to act by simplifying existing reporting requirements and ensure their consistency.1
The next webinar: ‘The Role of European Companies and Boards in Sustainability Reporting’
focused on the EU’s sustainability reporting requirements. The panellists exchanged views on
the role of European companies, their management and boards of directors in addressing the...
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