AEFSC Financing Europe

AEFSC Financing Europe is a high-level European finance and investment conference held at the BNP Paribas Fortis Auditorium in Brussels, Belgium. The event examines how Europe can mobilize capital for strategic priorities including defence capacity, energy infrastructure, clean industry, digital capability, major networks, data centres, industrial facilities, and companies seeking global scale. Its central focus is the gap between Europe’s investment ambitions and the practical ability of financial markets, institutions, banks, insurers, investors, and businesses to move savings into productive projects. The programme considers the implementation of reforms affecting capital allocation, banking competitiveness, insurance, market infrastructure, securitisation, supervision, and the Savings and Investments Union. It also explores the cost of capital, access to late-stage funding, listings, scale-up finance, supplementary pensions, automatic enrolment, retail investment, and the role of public money in encouraging private investment.
The conference brings together regulators, European institutions, financial-sector leaders, infrastructure developers, industrial companies, and professionals such as finance managers and lawyers. Key discussion themes include whether Europe’s banks can finance the continent’s strategic requirements, how cross-border capital, liquidity, deposit insurance, bank capital, Solvency II, and securitisation should evolve, and whether European market infrastructure requires more centralized supervision. Sessions also address how household savings can reach investment markets, where Europe’s growth and financing chain breaks down, and whether more European capital will be moving into productive assets in the years ahead. A private gathering is available for invited VIPs and speakers, alongside opportunities for professional networking.
The event’s speaker community and contributors include senior figures from the European Commission, the European Central Bank, the European Banking Authority, the European Securities and Markets Authority, the European Investment Bank, the European Investment Fund, national finance ministries, major banks, asset managers, and financial-market institutions. Represented expertise includes financial services policy, the Savings and Investments Union, market infrastructure and payments, banking supervision, financial-sector digitalisation and cybersecurity, public affairs, governance, investment strategy, and corporate finance. Notable participating institutions and organisations include BNP Paribas Asset Management, Barclays Europe, Standard Chartered Bank, and European public financial bodies. AEFSC Financing Europe is positioned as a policy-focused forum for assessing how regulation, supervision, institutional investment, and private capital can collectively support Europe’s long-term economic development. It is associated with a continuing European policy debate convened by Forum Europe and has a country ranking of 14, with Belgium identified as its audience market.