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Protecting investors without losing competitiveness: Europe's biggest challenge

Date: 29/10/2026
09:30h. - 10:00h.
Place: MERGE Stage

Language: English. MiCA is now in force, but the real debate is only starting. Europe wants to protect retail investors and, at the same time, keep an industry that is quietly moving its operations, its talent and its capital to other jurisdictions. The signals are already on the table: companies choosing Dubai, Singapore or the US to grow, builders setting up shop outside the EU, and institutions holding back projects they would have launched here two years ago. This panel brings regulators, supervisors and ecosystem players together to put the question on the table without softening it: can Europe protect its citizens without pushing the market away, and what has to change for that answer to be yes.

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Twice a year, MERGE brings together 5,000+ attendees and 250+ speakers. A private Institutional Summit at the Madrid Stock Exchange, two days at the Palacio de Cibeles, and the networking that moves the industry.

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