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Annual Review

Summarises AFME's accomplishments over the past year.

AFME Annual Review 2025
The 2025 Annual Review, “Advancing Europe’s Capital Markets: Delivering Stability and Growth in a Changing Landscape”, highlights AFME’s role over the past year in shaping reforms and supporting more resilient, competitive financial markets. Against a backdrop of political transition, regulatory change, and technological transformation, AFME has worked with policy makers and members to advance initiatives such as the Savings and Investment Union, securitisation reform, and implementation of Basel III. By providing expertise, building consensus, and promoting practical solutions, AFME continues to drive progress on deepening Europe’s capital markets and strengthening their role in supporting long-term growth and investment.
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Annual Reviews 2022-2012
2023
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2023

September, 2023
Remaining resilient in turbulent times – steps taken towards competitive capital markets
The 2023 Annual Review, "Remaining resilient in turbulent times – steps taken towards competitive capital markets", summarises AFME's work over the past year. Capital markets have continued to evolve in a turbulent economic and geopolitical environment this past year. Rapid reversals of conditions manifested in some stress events in the banking system. Nevertheless, capital markets have demonstrated resilience. AFME's efforts have been dedicated to reinforcing capital markets, ensuring their ability to bolster the real economy and serve the diverse needs of stakeholders, including investors and savers.
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2022
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2022

September, 2022
Strengthening the competitiveness of European financial markets
The 2022 Annual Review, "Strengthening the competitiveness of European financial markets", summarises AFME's work over the past year. Following recent economic events, capital markets have been through a period of instability, but have remained resilient. AFME's work has focused on further strengthening capital markets to ensure they can support the real economy and end users of capital markets, including investors and savers.
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2021
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2021

September, 2021
Supporting Europe’s post-pandemic economic recovery
The 2021 Annual Review, "Supporting Europe’s post-pandemic economic recovery", summarises AFME's accomplishments over the past year. This has been another testing year for European businesses in light of the pandemic, but it has also been a period underpinned by opportunity. While 2019/20 centred on resilience and adapting to the immediate change caused by the pandemic, AFME’s work this year has focused more on the role financial markets can play in driving Europe’s economic recovery.
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2020
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2020

September, 2020
Navigating the new normal
The 2020 Annual Review, "Navigating the new normal", summarises AFME's accomplishments over the past year. This year has been unlike any other and has presented unprecedented adversity to both society and businesses. This annual review features a dedicated section covering the work of teams in mitigating the impact of COVID-19 on capital markets.
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2019
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2019

Europe’s Capital Markets: The next phase and new challenges
The 2019 Annual Review details the past year’s achievements during a period of significant political change, with new leadership at the European Commission, European Council and European Central Bank.
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2018
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2018

Re-wiring Europe’s Capital Markets
“Europe’s wholesale markets are operating in a time of unprecedented structural change, which will continue throughout the Brexit negotiation period and beyond. AFME is committed to working with its members through these challenging times and our role as the voice of Europe’s wholesale financial markets is more important than ever.”
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2017
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2017

A bridge to the future of Europe's capital markets
“2017 has been a year of structural and political change, leaving the European capital markets industry with more questions than answers. At such a time of uncertainty, our role as a pan-European trade group could not be more important, not just to present the voice of the wholesale financial markets in Europe, but to provide a meaningful, fact-based contribution to help shape the future of our industry.”
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2016
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2016

The changing shape of Europe's capital markets
2016’s annual review covers AFME’s post-referendum work, its continued support of the European Commission’s Capital Markets Union project and our policy positions in areas such as growth, MiFID2, securitisation, recovery and resolution, advocacy and compliance.
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2015
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2015

Towards a Capital Markets Union
2015’s annual review covers AFME’s position on the UK’s EU referendum, its work in support of the European Commission’s Capital Markets Union project and policy position.
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2014
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2014

Revitalising Europe’s Capital Markets
Covering a historic wave of new regulation for banking and the capital markets, 2014’s review includes a look at the creation of Europe’s Banking Union and the reshaping of AFME’s business model.
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2013
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2013

Shaping the Growth Agenda
2013’s review points to the challenges to economic growth in Europe and how it can be kick started.
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2012
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2012

Navigating the New World
After the intense post-crisis period, 2012 saw rule-making give way to the task of implementing reforms.
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AFME Annual Review Summary Video

The 2023 Annual Review, "Remaining resilient in turbulent times – steps taken towards competitive capital markets", summarises AFME's work over the past year. Capital markets have continued to evolve in a turbulent economic and geopolitical environment this past year. Rapid reversals of conditions manifested in some stress events in the banking system. Nevertheless, capital markets have demonstrated resilience. AFME's efforts have been dedicated to reinforcing capital markets, ensuring their ability to bolster the real economy and serve the diverse needs of stakeholders, including investors and savers.