Supporting the revival of securitisation to channel financing to households, SMEs and the EU’s strategic objectives, with stronger ESG disclosure requirements and transparent monitoring of whether ‘freed-up’ capital boosts lending.
Preserving safeguards and international standards to protect financial stability, avoiding excessive risk-taking, and discouraging relocation of securitisation processes to unregulated jurisdictions or aggressive tax regimes.
Strengthening supervision and fine-tuning technical aspects (calibration, definitions, retention rules), while introducing measures to preserve lender–borrower relationships and transparency throughout the securitisation process.
In an opinion adopted at the September plenary, the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) says that the Commission has not yet managed to really put people at the heart of the EU’s energy system, and calls for the new initiative to provide the right guarantees in this direction.
