EQT Has 1,000 Companies in Sight. Can Europe Give Them a Market?

Thursday, August 20, 2026

EQT has identified more than 1,000 potential targets for the Scaleup Europe Fund. The deeper question is what happens next: whether Europe’s exchanges, institutional investors and regulators are ready when today’s scale-ups become tomorrow’s multibillion-euro public companies.

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ESMA — Guardian of the Interface

Tuesday, August 18, 2026

As Europe’s capital markets become more connected, supervision remains largely national. ESMA is emerging as the institution best placed to guard that interface — protecting market integrity without becoming the operator or owner of the system.

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Europe Already Has the Markets. What It May Need Is an Interface

Monday, August 17, 2026

Europe may already possess much of the financial infrastructure it needs. The deeper challenge is connecting markets, capital and institutions into a more continuous system — and determining who should guard the interface between them.

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