ISLA is pleased to share our response to the European Commission’s Call for Evidence for its 2025 Single Market Strategy.
Read our full response here.
Aligned to the commission’s recently published Competitiveness Compass, the Single Market Strategy aims to create a new momentum for a modernised single market for goods and services, taking into consideration the needs of businesses, workers and citizens.
ISLA believes that securities lending supports stronger, deeper, and more integrated European capital markets which would help to bolster the competitiveness of EU capital markets, whilst also strengthening Europe’s market resiliency.
Our response outlines a number of recommendations which should be considered by policy makers, these recommendations are grouped into four main pillars:
- Securing and expanding supply-side channels
- Optimising and enhancing demand-side channels
- Advancing EU infrastructure to further drive forward market efficiency and digitisation
- Improving the financial stability data reporting framework for SLB to ensure market resiliency
We look forward to engaging with the European Commission on the issues raised in our response and we welcome engagement with our members on our wider EU advocacy efforts.
For more information on our work in the EU, you can read our manifesto ‘How to Boost Europe’s Capital Markets by Empowering Securities Lending & Borrowing’ here.
