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Europe has a shared currency, but its financial markets remain fragmented. The Euro’s Next Chapter explores how deeper integration can connect savings with investment—and why infrastructure, stability and public trust matter.
Europe made payments instant, but fraud intelligence still moves between banks, platforms and authorities at institutional speed. As AI industrialises deception, Europe must decide who connects—and ultimately controls—the warning systems protecting its financial architecture.
Europe is beginning to build the funds its scale-ups need. But growth capital is only a bridge. Without sufficient liquidity, specialist investors and a credible European exit market, its most successful technology companies may still gravitate towards New York.
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.
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.
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.
Luxembourg Stock Exchange shows how the role of an exchange can extend beyond raising capital. Through sustainable finance, it raises a deeper question for Europe: can financial markets make clearer not only where money goes, but what it is for?
Warsaw Stock Exchange helped Poland transition towards a market economy. Three decades later, it faces a different challenge: can Warsaw connect the growing companies and industries of Central and Eastern Europe with the deeper pools of capital available across Europe?
SIX Group raises an unusual question about modern financial markets. When banks and financial institutions collectively own infrastructure they also depend upon, ownership becomes more than a corporate matter — it becomes a question of governance, resilience and economic responsibility.
