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Tough Cloud rules will stifle bank uptake - Afme

European capital market participants are calling on supervisory authorities to remove regulatory barriers to cloud adoption, arguing that broad-brush diktats on portability and multi-cloud strategies would present significant challenges to implementation by financial firms.

23 September 2021

Company announcement/sustainable

Afme report reveals 58% increase of the European ESG market in 2020

AFME is launching today its first European ESG Finance quarterly data report, with figures revealing the scale of growth of the rapidly growing Sustainable Finance market in Europe.

04 March 2021

News/sustainable

AFME: ‘Financial materiality is not sustainable finance’s end goal’

In conversation with Richard Peers for Finextra TV, Tonia Plakhotniuk, associate director, policy (sustainable finance & financial reporting) at the Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) traverses a number of predications we can expect to see around sustainable finance in 2021.

25 January 2021

Company announcement/regulation

Afme calls for the EU to help unlock the potential of new technologies for European capital markets

In a paper published today, AFME outlines the regulatory framework needed to support banks as they adopt new technologies such as crypto-assets, artificial intelligence and cloud computing, harness the value from data, and address the challenges of cybersecurity and operational resilience.

15 September 2020

News/sustainable

AFME: Support banks in reducing investment in high carbon emitting sectors, don’t punish them

In light of the European Commission’s call for comment on the Renewed Sustainable Finance Strategy, the Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) posited that the cornerstone of future policies should be transition in the real economy – non-financial sectors – and banks should encourage and support them to reflect on uptake, effectiveness and identify issues and gaps in their current approach.

05 August 2020