20 years ago today the 🇪🇺 welcomed 🇨🇾🇨🇿🇪🇪🇭🇺🇱🇻🇱🇹🇲🇹🇵🇱🇸🇰🇸🇮

Celebrating this homecoming in Farmleigh House, in Phoenix Park – where the 2004 Day of Welcomes took place – with Simon Harris TD Micheál Martin Jennifer Carroll MacNeill TD & the 10 countries’ ambassadors.

#20YearsTogether

#Dublin 's Samuel Beckett Bridge was lit up last night in celebration of this day 20 years ago when 10 new countries became part of our European 🇪🇺 family: 🇨🇾 🇨🇿 🇪🇪 🇭🇺 🇱🇻 🇱🇹 🇲🇹 🇵🇱 🇸🇰 🇸🇮 👇

Ireland 🇮🇪 was proud to host the official Ceremony of Welcomes.

#20YearsTogether

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In her #EuroAmericanCancerForum2024 keynote address today, Mairead McGuinness, European Commissioner for Financial Stability, Financial Services and the Capital Markets Union, discussed the right to be forgotten and the need to stop financial discrimination against cancer…

Great news from European Parliament !

The final elements of the ambitious package on AML/CFT are now agreed by co-legislators. The new AML rules will change the EU’s financial crime prevention landscape for good. But what will change in practice?
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#EUstopsdirtymoney #AML

🚨Today marks a significant day for the European Union’s ongoing fight against financial crime.

MEPs have approved reforms to EU rules to counter money laundering, including setting up a new Anti-Money Laundering Authority.

#AML #AML A

Commissioner Mairead McGuinness delivers a message on: the role of integration and innovation in the European retail payments market, digital euro, and the Commission’s fight against discrimination and fraud in payments. Read her full address: europa.eu/!Pp7KHj

🔴In #Eplenary ca. 15 CEST:

A debate on the legislative package on fighting money-laundering, with Mairead McGuinness and the EP rapporteurs:
Luděk Niedermayer, Paul Tang, Eero Heinäluoma, Damien CAREME 🌍, Eva Poptcheva 🇪🇺🇪🇸 & Emil Radev.

Follow it here:
europarl.europa.eu/plenary/en/hom…

w/ECON Committee Press

Really pleased to meet with Chair Irene Tinagli & coordinators of ECON Committee Press at the last plenary session before 🇪🇺 elections.

A lot of good work together in the 9th parliamentary term.

A big thank you to Committee members & to Parliament & Commission staff that make it happen.

As the IMF-World Bank Spring Meetings come to a close, these in-person engagements are hugely valuable.
A broad range of topics covered including banking regulation, AML, digital finance, AI and financial stability.

Great to meet with Jerome Powell, Chair of the Federal Reserve.
We spoke about common challenges in banking regulation and financial stability in the current climate.

Today Harvard Law School 🇪🇺🇺🇸 Symposium I spoke about the digital future of finance & the future of digital finance.
Innovations - digital currencies, AI & DLT are transforming the financial system – bringing benefits & some risks. The EU works to harness innovation & mitigate risks.

Great to meet with Gary Gensler, Chair of U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission this morning.
We exchanged on a number of topics of mutual interest, including climate disclosures and the US move to T+1

Always a pleasure to sit down with the straight talking Dennis Kelleher, President of Better Markets.

We share the objective of consumer-focused financial regulation - good to discuss retail investment, transparency and fair consumer advice.

Earlier today I spoke with Karen Tso on CNBC International in Washington, D.C. - we talked EU competitiveness and delivering CMU and a digital euro to complement cash. Watch back here ⤵️
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🍏 Meeting with senior Apple executives yesterday to discuss the evolution of digital regulation in Europe.

Thanks to San Francisco Fed President Mary C. Daly and her team for hosting me this afternoon. We discussed the global economic outlook and how the EU and US can work together on common objectives, including #Financialstability and #sustainablefinance .

Earlier today I spoke with ⁦Ed Ludlow⁩ and ⁦Caroline Hyde⁩ on Bloomberg Bloomberg on all things #fintech , #crypto #ai and #digitalfinance regulation. Watch back: bloomberg.com/news/videos/20…

💶 💵 We need to talk about money – delighted to speak Stanford University today on financial education.
I talked about what we’re doing in the EU and what more we need to do, and exchanged with Prof @a_lusardi, her colleagues and students on the challenges and possible solutions.

This morning I met with John Collison, President of Stripe – a European success story in payments.
Great conversation about the international payments landscape, how we tackle cyber-risks and fraud, and the role of financial education.