Four MPs—Tom Staahle, Martin Virkesdal Jonsterhaug, Hans Andreas Limi, and Hilde Grande—proposed a comprehensive analysis of the financial sector's role and competitiveness, along with a comparative review of supervisory practices. The committee majority (Labour, Socialist Left, Centre, Red, and Green parties) recommends rejecting the proposal, citing a prior Storting decision to conduct a full review of the financial sector's operating conditions in connection with an upcoming financial markets white paper. The Progress Party, Conservatives, Christian Democrats, and Liberals have submitted three alternative proposals, including one on evaluating Swedish fund market reports.
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The Storting calls on the government, in cooperation with the financial sector and relevant actors from state authorities and academia, to conduct a comprehensive analysis of the financial sector's role and importance for growth and economic transition, and to assess how regulation and operating conditions in Norway, compared to the Nordic countries, could be adjusted to strengthen competitiveness in the sector.
The Storting calls on the government to conduct a comparative review of supervisory practices and division of responsibilities between the Ministry of Finance and the Financial Supervisory Authority, to ensure that national and international regulations are synchronized and applied in a way that promotes innovation, competition, and growth.
The Storting calls on the government to present an assessment of the proposals in SOU 2025:60 and SOU 2025:117 and report back to the Storting on how these proposals should be followed up in Norway, by the time of the 2027 state budget at the latest.
Document 8:38 S (2025–2026) – Private member's bill from MPs Tom Staahle, Martin Virkesdal Jonsterhaug, Hans Andreas Limi, and Hilde Grande on the financial sector as industrial policy – is rejected.