The Convention of the Federation of European Securities Exchanges (FESE) – an influential international organization connecting 35 exchanges from 30 European countries – took place under the title “Public Capital Markets Powering Europe`s Recovery”. Although this year the Convention took place online (VIDEO), it was attended by the highest decision makers, representatives from the fields of economy, finance and politics as well as many other distinguished guests and invited delegates. In addition to hearing Mairead McGuinness, the European Commissioner for Financial Stability, Financial Services and the Capital Markets Union – and in light of the upcomingSlovenian presidency of the Council of the EU – the participants were also addressed by the Minister of Finance of the Republic of Slovenia mag. Andrej Šircelj, who was one of keynote speakers (VIDEO).
The event was also attended – as in many previous years – at the invitation of the organizers, by the VZMD President Mr. Kristjan Verbič, who actively participated as a delegate and posed a number of questions to the minister Šircelj and other attendees. Among other things, he asked what kind of agenda has Slovenia prepared for its Presidency with respect to achieving the ambition of a joint EU capital market, and why is Slovenia constantly (VIDEO) additionally restricting and limiting fiduciary accounts for securities (VIDEO) – which are of vital importance for cross-border (and EU) securities trading – pointing out how this is in direct violation of the EU acquis, which is why VZMD had to initiate the proceedings at the European Commission.
The aforementioned also makes it more difficult to carry out the program called “Share SUPPORT” (VIDEO), which was established by VZMD to make the shareholding and access to the securities market easier for minority shareholders and individual investors, which is one of EU priorities. The European Federation of Investors and Financial Services Users also spoke up in favor of a smooth functioning, protection and strengthening of the “Share SUPPORT” (BETTER FINANCE), led by the Managing Director Guillaume Prache, who was one of the speakers at a roundtable on competitive and efficient markets – both from a standpoint of securities issuers and investors.
There were a number of discussions mainly dedicated to the question of how to develop competitive, efficient and attractive European capital markets that would enable recovery as well as long-term growth and prosperity following the COVID-19 pandemic – both for securities issuers and investors. Their experience, opinions and views were presented by as many as 30 prominent speakers, including Florence Bindelle, Secretary General of the European association representing securities issuers (EUROPEANISSUERS), Thomas Book, Member of the Executive Board of DEUTSCHE BÖRSE, Stéphane Boujnah, Chairman of the Managing Board of EURONEXT, Adena Friedman, President and CEO of NASDAQ, Othmar Karas, Vice-President of the European Parliament, Robert Ophèle, President of French Financial Markets Authority, Rainer Riess, Director General of FESE etc.
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