ESMA’s 2025 Annual Report, reinforces its focus on stronger supervision, simpler regulation, and enhanced oversight of crypto, ESG, and digital resilience across EU markets

Key achievements included implementing major regulatory frameworks such as MiCA, DORA and EMIR 3, advancing crypto-asset supervision, enhancing digital resilience, improving ESG and sustainable finance oversight, and adopting a more data-driven, risk-based supervisory approach. ESMA also prioritised reducing regulatory burdens through streamlined reporting requirements, supported the move to a T+1 settlement cycle, selected the EU’s first…