About Us
The Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) is the voice of Europe’s wholesale financial markets, providing expertise across a broad range of regulatory and capital markets issues. We represent the leading global and European banks and other significant capital market players. AFME’s members are the lead underwriters of 89% of European corporate and sovereign debt, and 79% of European listed equity capital issuances.

Mission Statement
We advocate for deep, integrated, and sustainable capital markets which serve the needs of companies and investors, supporting economic growth and benefiting society.

Strategy Statement
AFME works to promote a robust, connected and competitive financial system in the EU, UK and globally.

• Advocating for deep and liquid secondary markets. Placing greater focus on the role of well-functioning, diverse and competitive secondary market eco-systems to build a highly liquid, market-based funding capacity. This can, in turn, support businesses in raising funds and ensure investors can make cost-efficient transactions.
  
• Pursuing changes that enable the European green and digital transformations. The scale of the transition that global economies need to undertake demands a large-scale mobilisation of capital. Policy makers can help to create the right conditions across Europe’s capital markets so that businesses and investors can benefit from technological developments and decarbonise supply chains.
  
• Supporting the completion of the Banking Union and Capital Markets Union. These projects have the potential to improve financial stability; ensure alternative funding sources are available to finance economic recovery (independently of the economic cycle); and help towards reducing the costs of local ring-fencing facing EU banks.
  
• Ensuring the connectivity of EU and UK financial markets with the rest of the world. Open, competitive and resilient financial systems thrive and improve stability. Integrated global markets enable the provision of efficient services to end-users. While regulatory fragmentation undermines the benefits that come with cooperation and coordination across jurisdictions.