France’s politicians need to “get on and fix” the problems facing their economy, Irish central-bank Governor Gabriel Makhlouf said, ruling out immediate intervention by the European Central Bank to shore up the country’s debt.

The outgoing chair of the European Union’s securities watchdog said it’s unlikely to match the scope of its US counterpart in her lifetime — but warned that a push for more effective market oversight will depend on governance that lets the regulator act swiftly.

The European Union reached a provisional agreement to overhaul rules governing the bloc’s securitization markets, a deal that would unleash billions of euros to finance initiatives in key areas such as defense and climate resilience.

While the Bank of England is busy stress testing the UK’s private markets, another threat is looming in the minds of regulators.

European Union bank bosses watching Wall Street rivals reap the benefits of US President Donald Trump’s deregulation drive can expect the EU to find ways to deliver some rule relief as soon as next year, according to the head of the bloc’s banking regulator.

The European Central Bank is taking aim at Finland’s plan to require supervisors to promote growth and competition among lenders, warning that the change risks blurring their core responsibility for keeping banks safe and sound.

A surge in government bond yields is the biggest emerging risk to the global financial system, a top official at the International Monetary Fund said, as the IMF presented its twice-yearly report on the financial stability outlook.

The European Central Bank would like euro-area consumers to be able to use digital euros in all online shops, some physical stores and to make payments to each other right from the start, according to a presentation seen by Bloomberg.

Valuations in artificial intelligence remain vulnerable to a “sharper correction” than experienced in July, the Bank of England warned, noting the widespread implications of such a crash for global growth and sovereign bond yields.

US-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase Global Inc. has been removed as a member of UK Finance, one of Britain’s most influential financial services lobby groups, even as the digital-asset sector takes a more prominent role in policy debates.

Maria Luis Albuquerque, the European Union’s financial services commissioner, has rejected demands by banks to split in two a grand plan to boost the bloc’s financial system.

The European Union’s possible abandonment of a linchpin of global capital reforms in a bid to help its lenders compete with Wall Street would be a “disaster,” according to the recently departed head of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision.

The Financial Conduct Authority, the UK’s markets regulator, plans to publish a daily summary of trading in the country’s shares starting Friday, part of its effort to increase transparency, according to people familiar with the matter.

Euronext NV is considering creating a market for private securities, potentially ramping up competition with the London Stock Exchange Group Plc as bourses seek to offer investors access to fast-growing private companies.

The European Union unveiled a sweeping package to tackle inefficiencies, barriers and national biases that have dogged its banks for decades, seizing on concerns about growth and competitiveness to take on contentious issues like deposit insurance and the free flow of capital across the bloc’s borders.

Bank bosses in the European Union will turn their attention to Brussels this afternoon when the bloc’s executive arm lays out its long-awaited answer to the deregulatory agenda championed by US President Donald Trump.

Banks and finance firms should combine their buying power to avoid losing out in negotiations with US tech giants, according to raft of Dutch proposals aimed at tackling Europe’s over-dependence on foreign providers of critical services such as AI and cloud computing.

Banks and finance firms should combine their buying power to avoid losing out in negotiations with US tech giants, according to raft of Dutch proposals aimed at tackling Europe’s over-dependence on foreign providers of critical services such as AI and cloud computing.

Alternative asset managers have given the Bank of England detailed information on their investments in 520 UK corporates with revenue of more than £230 billion ($308 billion), as part of the watchdog’s probe into potential economic fallout from a private markets crash.

The Bank of England has proposed easing a handful of capital rules, even as officials fret about deepening threats from AI, a fraught geopolitical outlook and rapidly increasing leverage.