European Central Bank staff added their support to a controversial call for more centralized supervision of the European Union’s largest asset managers as the bloc seeks to deepen its capital markets.

The European Union’s drive for deeper capital markets needs to look beyond discussions of potential mergers between exchanges, said a top Deutsche Boerse AG executive.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said the reform of the European Union’s capital markets is key to reviving the bloc’s ability to compete with other parts of the world.

Europe’s top markets regulator said she is trying to ease the cost and effort required for hedge funds and private credit firms to comply with new rules which will require them to hand over more data to authorities.

European Union plans to simplify bank rules must make future capital needs clear and avoid fixation on subordinated debt, a top watchdog said.

The European Central Bank said it will intensify how it monitors significant risk transfers as it speeds up approvals for some of the deals.

The European Central Bank has identified significant deficiencies in risk models of top Swedish lenders SEB AB and Swedbank AB for their operations in Baltic countries, according to people familiar with the matter.

German insurers are the most exposed in Europe to illiquid corporate bonds, a top watchdog said in one of the most detailed reports to date on the industry’s investments in private credit.

Investors in a key piece of bank capital were left puzzled after the European Central Bank proposed changing the market without explaining how.

The European Central Bank will enact a raft of changes next year to make its supervision of lenders more effective and reduce costs for the industry.

The European Central Bank proposed changing the design of a type of deeply subordinated bond issued by lenders to ensure it can absorb losses before banks fail.

The European Central Bank will enact a raft of changes next year to make its supervision of lenders more effective and reduce costs for the industry.

The European Central Bank proposed changing the design of a type of deeply subordinated bond issued by lenders to ensure it can absorb losses before banks fail.

Aegon Ltd. wants to lift fees from managing assets for outside clients by attracting more money into structured financial securities.

Aegon Ltd.’s shares dropped after it outlined financial targets that underwhelmed investors, overshadowing a confirmation it will move its headquarters to the US over the next two years.

The European Central Bank’s top supervisory official said her work to reduce regulatory burdens will cut compliance costs for banks, amid widespread expectations that a wider effort to safeguard the industry’s competitiveness will fall short.

Germany’s financial watchdog warned the country’s banks that they face risks from the increasingly opaque ties between companies driving the artificial intelligence boom.

European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos gave one of the starkest signals yet that top officials who are working to lighten the regulatory burden on banks won’t water down their financial strength.

European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos gave one of the starkest signals yet that top officials who are working to lighten the regulatory burden on banks won’t water down their financial strength.

Several top European central bankers made competing proposals on how to reduce the regulatory burden on lenders as they seek to influence the discussion just weeks before finalizing a report that will set the stage for decisions at the European Union level.