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Finanzmarktaufsicht

FMA · Financial supervisory authority
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FY2025 · as of 31 December 2025Published figures unless marked

Employees461.5full-time equivalents
Annual budget€101.2Mpersonnel + other operating expenses — excludes depreciation
Supervised entitiesSee the breakdown belowFY2025

Overview

Austria's FMA supervises 838 entities managing €1.46 trillion — with 461 full-time staff. 2025 was its first year running MiCAR and DORA, and it became one of the first EU authorities to publish reporting data on its licensed crypto-asset service providers. The year carried two rare distinctions: a "substantial" FATF rating for anti-money-laundering effectiveness, and not a single FMA decision overturned by Austria's administrative courts. Everything below is the FMA's own data, from its Jahresbericht 2025.

Regulated sectors

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BanksPayment institutionsE-money institutionsCrypto-asset service providersInvestment firmsInsurance companiesPension fundsSecurities markets

Figures as published by Finanzmarktaufsicht for FY2025. Source: FMA Jahresbericht 2025 (German) (Including the downloadable data annex "Datengrundlagen und Grafiken" (XLSX)). Data as of 31 December 2025. Supplementary: Jahresberichte archive.

Leadership

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Helmut Ettl

Executive Board Membersince 2008

Mariana Kühnel

Executive Board Membersince 2025

Full board

Organisation & supervision (FY2025)

Staff
461.5 FTEUp ~35 in 2025, driven by new MiCAR, DORA and related mandates
Supervised entities
838Down from 1,046; includes Raiffeisenlandesbank NÖ-Wien moving to direct ECB supervision on balance-sheet size
Assets under supervision
€1.46 trillionOf which 72 insurance undertakings with €110.4bn
Legal mandate
44 lawsVersus 17 laws at the FMA's founding in 2002

Notable 2025

MiCAR supervision
First year; first-ever published reporting data on FMA-licensed CASPs. The FMA publicly advocates ESMA-level direct supervision for the largest CASPs, mirroring the ECB model for significant banks
FATF mutual evaluation (April 2026)
"Substantial" effectiveness rating for AML/CFT — the second-highest achievable
Zero decisions overturned
No FMA decisions overturned on the merits by the Federal Administrative Court or Supreme Administrative Court in the reporting year
DORA year one
First applicable year; joint FMA–OeNB review drew a positive one-year cyber-resilience balance
2026 supervisory focus
Artificial intelligence in the financial sector — an FMA survey found live AI pilots in fraud detection, identification, AML and claims handling

Key legislation

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BWG (Bankwesengesetz)

Banking Act

ZaDiG 2018

PSD2 transposition

FM-GwG

Financial Market AML Act

MiCA-VG

MiCA implementation (2024)

Registers, portals and publications

Public registers

Company database

Application portals

Incoming Platform

Recent publications

FMA Jahresbericht 2025 (German)2026-05-01Annual Report 20242025-04-30
Data as of 31 December 2025 · Source: www.fma.gv.at (authority website) + ComplyBridge researchActivity Index methodology →