Europejska Unia Rynków Kapitałowych a zróżnicowanie systemów finansowych państw członkowskich
Capital Markets Union and differentiation of financial systems in member states

Summary/Abstract: Motivation: The European Capital Market Union (CMU) is a comprehensive initiative with an aim to support the competitiveness of the European Union (EU) economy. Its main tasks are to improve the access for European enterprises to long-term financing, especially in case of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and start-up companies as well as broadening the variety of financing sources thanks to the development of equity and corporate bonds markets.Aim: The main aim of the article is to present the CMU in the light of the literature re-lated to structural changes in financial systems and in the context of current shape of the European financial sector. As a result, the assessment of CMU and main potential obstacles, the EU lawmakers may encounter are presented.Results: The scope of the reform is a major challenge in terms of regulatory (different degree of harmonization of different law branches in the EU) and political issues (relat-ed to deepening of the integration among EU countries) and due to financial systems’ diversity in the EU countries. However, according to economic researches on institu-tional complementarity, among others B. Amable (2003), the scope of effective regula-tion must be broad and embrace both demand and supply side of the market. Deriving conclusions from Anglo-Saxon countries’ experiences with market-based economy seems to be reasonable in this case, especially taking into consideration still non-saturated market for this type of financing in the EU.

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