ESMA launches digital and data strategies to support supervision of EU financial markets

The European Securities Markets Authority (ESMA) has announced the adoption of its new digital strategy 2026–2028 and an updated data strategy 2023–2028, signalling a continued shift toward technology‑driven supervision and streamlined regulatory reporting. The new digital strategy sets out a roadmap focused on: enhancing EU‑wide digital synergies; strengthening the digital capabilities of both ESMA and the European System of Financial Supervision; improving operational efficiency; and ensuring a secure and future‑ready supervisory ecosystem. The updated data strategy emphasises burden reduction and more integrated data management, with key new actions including major initiatives to streamline supervisory reporting, expansion of the ESMA data platform, further development of the MiCAR joint supervisory tool for crypto‑market monitoring and finalisation of the European Single Access Point. These goals are in line with its wider simplification and burden reduction initiative launched in 2025. ESMA's data and digital work will be guided by the roadmaps under both strategies. By 2029, ESMA expects to converge the two into one unified strategy.

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