FMA publishes its priorities for supervision and inspections for 2020 and presents the publication `Facts and Figures, Trends and Strategies 2020`
(World News Austria)

The Austrian Financial Market Authority (FMA) has published its priorities for inspections for 2020 today. `Building on our medium-term risk assessment for 2020 - 2024 we have identified areas of the financial market that will present regulation and supervision with particular challenges in the coming years,` remarked the FMA`s Executive Board Members, Helmut Ettl and Klaus Kumpfmüller: The FMA warns that `escalating trade wars, political conflicts in many regions of the world, and the threat of multilateralism mean that the danger of a geopolitical recession is looming.` Furthermore, the continuing low interest environment, disruptions due to digital transformation, the increasing risk of...