you are currently viewing:Europe and Central Asia: Accelerate Growth through Entrepreneurship, Technology Adoption, and InnovationApril 23, 2025—Economic growth in the developing economies of the Europe and Central Asia region is likely to slow, says the World Bank's Economic Update for the region, released today. Regional growth is now expected at 2.5% in 2025-26 owing to weaker external demand and a slowdown in Russia. In 2024, growth across the region stabilized at 3.6% buoyed by private consumption and supported by robust real wage increases, higher remittances, and stepped-up consumer borrowing, all of which offset weaker external demand due to low growth in the European Union. Source: World Bank |
June 16, 2025-The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU's financial markets regulator and supervisor, has published its Annual Report for 2024. The activities conducted and results achieved in 2024 support ESMA's strategic priorities and thematic drivers- to foster stable and effective markets, strengthen supervision, and enhance retail investor protection while enabling sustainable finance and facilitating technological innovation and the use of data.
June 2, 2025--Janus Henderson's fourth active fixed income ETF launch outside of the US this year
Janus Henderson Investors has launched the Janus Henderson Tabula Euro Short Duration Income UCITS ETF (JHES). available to European investors.
June 12, 2025--The ifo Institute has revised its economic forecast for Germany upward. The German economy is expected to grow by 0.3 percent in 2025 and 1.5 percent in 2026. Compared to the spring forecast, the growth rates have been raised by 0.1 and 0.7 percentage points respectively. "The crisis in the German economy reached its low point in the winter half-year," says Timo Wollmershäuser, Head of Forecasts at ifo.
June 10, 2025-The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU's financial markets regulator and supervisor, has today published its latest edition of the Spotlight on Markets Newsletter.
Your one-stop-shop in the world of EU financial markets focused in April and May on the Call for Evidence (CfE) related to the retail investor journey under MiFID II. This CfE seeks feedback from stakeholders to better understand how retail investors engage with investment services.
June 6, 2025--MONTREUX: Selectors share their active ETF action plan as new products flood the European market.
Our allocation is still small, but we have seen a growing interest for active ETFs, and ETFs in general - probably one of the biggest trends that we are seeing so far,' Generali's 40 under 40-listed fund selector, Sofia Righetti said at Citywire's Montreux forum.
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June 4, 2025--The SPDR S&P Europe Defense Vision UCITS ETF invests in at least 30 European-based companies (excluding Russia) involved in defense-related activities.