Divisions and committees

Focuses on regulatory and legislative reform proposals impacting member firms.

Aims to promote an efficient pan-European covered bond market.

Monitors developments in policy and market structure that might affect the corporate bond and loan markets.

Monitors and analyses the policy and market developments that affect equities markets.

Works to promote efficient and coordinated equity-raising transactions in Europe and to develop good practice.

Focuses on promoting transparency and liquidity in the high yield and leveraged loan markets.

Focuses on the creation of a single integrated post-trading process for securities transactions in Europe.

Monitors developments in regulation, policy and market structure that affect the rates markets and formulates industry-wide responses.

Focuses on financial markets policy issues, development of best practices and member education.

GFMA’s Commodities Working Group focuses on regulatory issues specific to banks operating in the financial and physical commodities markets.

Represents members' views on the development and implementation of international accounting standards.

Leads AFME’s work on Conduct Regulation.

Represents member firms and helps them analyse and communicate the impact of proposed legislation.

Capital management is a core activity of bank management. Its primary objective is to balance the supply of capital with the demand for it.

AFME’s Prudential Regulation Division considers both existing and prospective drivers and forms of systemic risk and maintains a specialist working group to consider macroprudential policy.

AFME’s Sustainable Risk Management focuses on EU and UK industry developments regarding climate-related and environmental risks.

AFME’s Economic and Supervisory Capital Management policy area focuses on EU and UK supervisory policies in the field of risk and capital management.

AFME's Prudential Regulation division focuses on the issues relating to changes to the global, EU and UK prudential regulatory frameworks.

AFME’s Recovery & Resolution division focuses on supporting the development of an effective recovery and resolution framework in the EU and the UK, and the ongoing work to enhance resolvability.

Focuses on regional and global technology and security policy, best practice and member education.

The Global FX Division of the GFMA is committed to promoting an efficient, robust and well-functioning global FX market.