The French Financial Markets Authority (AMF) published a recap of its 2025 International Seminar for securities market regulators, held in a fully digital format from 10 to 20 March 2025 and attended by more than 950 representatives from 85 authorities, alongside the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) and the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA). The discussions focused on how regulators are responding to new supervisory challenges, including financial stability risks linked to the growing role of non-bank finance, artificial intelligence and regulatory data quality. In the opening session, AMF Chair Marie-Anne Barbat-Layani and IOSCO Chair Jean-Paul Servais addressed priorities across international, European and national levels, including IOSCO’s Financial Stability Engagement Group, co-chaired by Barbat-Layani and UK Financial Conduct Authority Chief Executive Nikhil Rathi, with attention to crypto-assets, tokenisation and operational resilience. The programme also covered stock market attrition alongside the expansion of private finance, increasing market exposure to money laundering, implementation of the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA), decentralised finance, sustainability reporting, supervision of real estate crowdfunding and private equity and private debt funds, and fraud, while Barbat-Layani reiterated AMF support for the European “Union for Savings and Investment” and highlighted AMF work with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development on new retail investors and its The Mysteries of Investopolis financial education campaign.

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