Publications
& Policy

The Platform on Sustainable Finance, an advisory body to the European Commission, has published an independent report on streamlining sustainable finance for SMEs. The report builds also on the experience with the implementation of the sustainability guarantee under the InvestEU programme (and its accompanying tools) and suggests developing a voluntary, streamlined approach – the “SME sustainable finance standard” – to help SMEs and their lenders or financiers voluntarily demonstrate SMEs’ environmental sustainability performance.

The European Savings & Investments Union offers a real opportunity to adapt once and for all the European regulatory framework for it to mobilize our own wealth to boost our own competitiveness. This position paper details the actions needed from a private equity perspective.

In this paper, Invest Europe highlights the private equity and venture capital industry’s support for the European Commission’s investment Omnibus proposal, focusing on expanding access to public funding for high-growth companies, reducing administrative burdens to enhance investment efficiency, and supporting a unified EU framework - a '28th regime' - to boost cross-border investment and innovation.

The EU regulatory landscape impacts on how venture capital firms can operate in their home countries and across the EU.

The fourth annual European deep tech report. In a pivotal year for deep tech, how is Europe faring, and how has the breakout of AI influenced deep tech priorities and European deep tech credentials.

Research from KPMG studying 2,038 executives in private companies finds that the sector’s robust investment decisions are empowering organizations to unlock new value from technology, with AI being a prime example. This report provides insight and analysis into their digital transformation strategies and how the sector’s approach needs to evolve moving forward.

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To address regulatory uncertainty in the transition period following the publication of the Omnibus Package on Sustainability, in this letter to the European Commission, we suggest the adoption of formal forbearance measures.

The Invest Europe ESG KPI Report is the first annual ESG and sustainability data survey to track the industry’s efforts in tackling issues such as climate change, female under-representation and bribery and corruption. Through this initiative – alongside the creation of Invest Europe’s ESG Reporting Guidelines – European private equity can become an undisputed leader and standard setter on ESG measurement and reporting across the global private capital industry.

During this webinar on the EU’s new Omnibus Package on Sustainability and its impact on the PE/VC industry, our expert speakers broke down the proposals, analysing key regulatory changes to the CSRD, CSDDD, and Taxonomy.

The European Investment Bank’s annual Investment Report provides a comprehensive overview of the developments and drivers of investment and investment finance in the European Union. This edition of the report focuses on the European economy’s effort to transform in a way that improves competitiveness, reduces reliance on fossil fuels and maintains its technological edge. The analysis presented relies on the annual EIB Investment Survey of 12 000 European firms and more than 800 US firms.

In this response, Invest Europe highlights the importance of unlocking greater EU and foreign institutional investment into innovative companies, alongside sophisticated and retail capital, while also emphasising the need to introduce a tailored EU long-term savings product and/or label, revise the SME definition, and establish an ambitious 28th regime to strengthen Europe’s innovation and growth potential.

In this response Invest Europe describes to the Financial Stability Board the specificities of the private equity ecosystem when it comes to leverage and calls for an approach that takes into consideration these specificities

In this letter to the European Commission we highlight the private equity and venture capital industry's suggestions surrounding the upcoming Omnibus Sustainability Package including the CSRD, CSDDD, and the Taxonomy.

This response asks IOSCO to carefully draft its Recommendations to acknowledge very specific types of open-ended structures, known as “semi-liquid” funds.