Mairead McGuinness, European Commissioner for Financial Services, Financial Stability and Capital Markets Union (CMU), made a speech discussing the importance of continuing to make progress on the Banking Union and CMU. Topics on the Commission’s agenda to continue development include analyzing the EU securitization market. The European Commission will launch a public consultation in the autumn on how to make the market more attractive to issuers and investors. Ms. McGuinness also announces a delay to the date of application of the BCBS’ fundamental review of the trading book (FRTB) market risk reforms by one year, until January 1, 2026. Ms. McGuinness explains that it is now clear there will be a delay in the U.S. in implementing the reforms and therefore a delay in the EU is necessary to ensure a global level playing field. The delay will be adopted by way of a delegated act, which will take a minimum of three months.
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