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Commissione Nazionale per le Società e la Borsa

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Employees

675

· employees, year-end (FY2024)

FY2025

Annual budget

€205.2m

· 2025 budget

FY2025

Supervised entities

198

· listed companies (regulated market)

FY2025

Overview

CONSOB (Commissione Nazionale per le Società e la Borsa) is Italy's securities-markets regulator, supervising listed companies, trading venues and market conduct, and — under MiCA — the authorisation of crypto-asset trading-platform operators. In 2025 the Commission met 63 times, issued 426 resolutions and ordered the blackout of 322 abusive investment websites, bringing the total to 1,522 since mid-2019. Italian equity-market capitalisation reached a record €1,077 billion on its watch, even as the Milan main market recorded 11 delistings and no IPOs. Everything below is CONSOB's own data, from its FY2025 annual report.

Regulated sectors

Investment firmsAsset managersCrypto-asset service providersSecurities marketsListed companiesMarket infrastructure

Leadership

  • Chiara MoscaActing Chair (Presidente vicario) · since 2026

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Figures as published by Commissione Nazionale per le Società e la Borsa for FY2025. Source: CONSOB — Relazione per l'anno 2025 (Italian) (Dated 31 March 2026). Data as of 31 December 2025. Supplementary: CONSOB annual report landing page (Italian/English).

Organisation (FY2025)

ItemValue
Staff
675
Year-end headcount, FY2024 (FY2025 figure pending in the Appendice statistica)
Budget
€205.2m
2025 budget; funding basis is market contributions
Commission meetings
63
vs 69 in 2024
Files examined
933
vs 997 in 2024
Resolutions issued
426
vs 429 in 2024

Supervised entities / markets (end-2025)

ItemValue
Italian equity-market capitalisation
€1,077bn
All-time high; FTSE MIB +31.5% in 2025 — best year in two decades
Listed companies — regulated market (EXM)
198
Down ~20% over the decade; 11 delistings and no IPOs in 2025
Growth market (EGM)
21 admissions · 19 revocations
<1% of total market cap
Sustainability-reporting perimeter
142 listed issuers (2025 reporting cycle)
Estimated to fall to ~87 under the Omnibus I Directive from FY2027
DLT register operators
5 entities
Under Italy's FinTech Decree; 2 for own-issued instruments, 3 also for third-party issuers

Supervisory activity 2025

ItemValue
Suspicious transaction/order reports received
606
vs 593 in 2024; 70% potential insider dealing, 28% manipulation; 79 reporting entities
Market-abuse investigations
10 investigations · 28 individuals charged
17 closed without findings; 405 information requests; 9 of 10 also referred to the judiciary
Investment research monitored
~11,500 studies received
−4% y/y; 60.7% buy, 37.6% hold, 1.7% sell
Short-selling notifications
15,000+ net-short-position notifications
~10% published (≥0.5% of capital); year-end aggregate €12.8bn

Enforcement 2025

ItemValue
Sanction proceedings concluded
56 · against 80 subjects
Calendar year 2025
Pecuniary sanctions
€5.8m
vs €11.6m in 2024. Proceeds go to the State budget and investor-protection fund
Website blackouts (abusive services)
322 in 2025
1,522 cumulative since 1 July 2019; 230 cease-and-desist resolutions
Commitments regime ("impegni")
21 applications · 16 accepted
First ~6 months of the new settlement-adjacent tool introduced in 2025

Crypto / MiCA

ItemValue
MiCA role
Authorisation of crypto-asset trading-platform operators; conduct and market-integrity supervision. Competences shared with Banca d'Italia (which handles ART/EMT issuers and AML provisions); a dedicated CONSOB–Banca d'Italia MiCA cooperation protocol was signed in 2025.
Transitional period (Italy)
Ends 30 June 2026
Per decree-law 95/2025; CONSOB spent 2025 on pre-authorisation casework ahead of the deadline
White papers — home state
9 notifications received · 5 transmitted to ESMA
"Other than ART/EMT" crypto-assets
White papers — host state
651 received
82% admission-to-trading only; 39% from third-country entities (BVI/Cayman concentration)
ART approvals
0
No asset-referenced-token cases in 2025

Notable 2025

ItemValue
Website-blackout scale
CONSOB has blacked out 1,522 abusive investment websites since its blackout power began in July 2019 — one of the most-used enforcement tools of its kind in the EU.
Commitments regime take-up
The new "commitments" regime drew 21 applications within roughly six months of taking effect, with 16 accepted — a rapid shift toward negotiated enforcement.
MiCA passporting scale
651 crypto-asset white papers landed on CONSOB's desk as host state in MiCA's first full year — a scale signal for passporting flows into Italy.
Record cap, no IPOs
A record €1,077bn market capitalisation coexisted with zero IPOs on the main market — a primary-market weakness CONSOB flags as breaking the classic "hot markets" pattern.
TUF reform landing
Reform of Italy's Consolidated Finance Act (TUF) began landing in 2026, moving sanction appeals to the administrative courts and reshaping listed-company governance — with CONSOB's regulatory rulebook to be revised in consequence.

Key legislation

  • Testo Unico della Finanza (D.Lgs. 58/1998)

    Consolidated Finance Act — securities markets, investment services, listed issuers

  • Regolamento Emittenti (Delibera 11971/1999)

    Issuers Regulation

  • Regolamento Intermediari (Delibera 20307/2018)

    Intermediaries Regulation (MiFID II)

  • D.L. 95/2025 (Italian MiCA implementation)

    CONSOB — CASP authorisation and market-integrity supervision

Public registers

Application portals

Recent publications

Data as of 31 December 2025 · Source: www.consob.it + ComplyBridge researchActivity Index methodology →

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