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Feedzai is not the next Scaleup Europe prediction. It is a test case for a harder question: whether Europe can remain financially relevant when its most promising technology companies become large, global and strategically important.
The European Investment Fund rarely chooses individual winners. Its deeper role is to share risk, anchor investment vehicles and strengthen the transition from innovation to investability — helping private capital move where markets are not yet ready to move alone.
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.
Europe’s new Scaleup Europe Fund is beginning to bridge the gap between innovation and scale. ICEYE and Lovable show how European capital can remain at the table as technology companies become global.
Europe says it needs hundreds of billions to finance its future. Yet Norway’s sovereign wealth fund alone manages more than €2 trillion. The real constraint may not be capital, but Europe’s architecture for turning savings into scale.
Europe created a single currency, but not yet a single financial economy. Its exchanges reveal sophisticated but fragmented strengths. The next European project may therefore be neither one exchange nor one financial centre, but a connected European capital architecture.
ICEYE’s €1 billion funding round signals a new phase in Europe’s industrial ambitions. Europe is learning to finance strategic companies at scale. The next test is whether its investors and stock exchanges are ready to grow with them.
Despite sharing a common currency, Europe’s capital markets remain fragmented across national legal and financial systems. This essay explores why the Capital Markets Union seeks to bridge those divisions—and why deeper financial integration has become essential for Europe’s future competitiveness.
Europe has built a single market and a common currency, yet its capital remains fragmented. This opening essay explores why the Capital Markets Union has become a strategic priority—and why financial markets are increasingly part of Europe’s critical infrastructure.
European stock markets remain technically efficient, yet their societal purpose grows uncertain. As AI reshapes valuation and abstraction distances markets from everyday reality, Europe faces a deeper question: do financial systems still create value or merely calculate it?
