The Slovenian Securities Market Agency hosted the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on cooperation in the field of coordinated regulation and supervision of markets operating in Slovenia, Croatia, Slovakia, Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary and North Macedonia with the aim of ensuring a coordinated approach to the exercise of their competences. Regulators will support the initiative as proposed by the regulated markets in the region and adopted in November 2024.

The MoU establishes closer cooperation and promotes regional cooperation in defining and implementing key initiatives for the development of regional capital markets. The purpose of the MoU is to cooperate on matters of mutual interest under the principles of mutual trust, consultation and proportionality and to identify gaps in the regulation of these markets and to implement activities to harmonise the regulations governing the capital market. Through more frequent cooperation, coordination and occasional meetings, we will further strengthen the already good cooperation between supervisors.

In August 2025, the finance ministers of the aforementioned countries signed a cooperation agreement for the regional integration of markets in Central and South-Eastern Europe, thus confirming the highest-level political commitment to support activities for the development of the capital markets of the signatory countries.