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09/11/2018 | ESMA35-36-1262 | Technical Q&As on product intervention measures on CFDs and binary options | MiFID - Investor Protection | Q&A | PDF 147.84 KB |
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27/03/2014 | 2014/332 | Structured Retail Products- Good practices for product governance arrangements | MiFID - Investor Protection, Innovation and Products | Opinion | PDF 203.1 KB |
Legal basis 1. Regulation (EU) No 1095/2010 (ESMA Regulation) sets out the European Securities and Markets Authority’s (ESMA) scope of action, tasks and powers which include “enhancing customer protection”, and “foster[ing] investor protection”. 2. In order to continue delivering on this investor protection statutory objective, ESMA is issuing this opinion on certain aspects linked to the manufacturing and distribution of structured retail products (SRP). This opinion takes into account relevant work done in this field both at European and interna-tional level. 3. This opinion is without prejudice to the requirements for the provision of investment services and activities established in the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) and its implementing measures (notably, Directive 2006/73/EC), the regulatory developments arising from the MiFID review or existing product rules that may apply to SRPs. 4. ESMA’s competence to deliver an opinion is based on Article 29(1) (a) of the ESMA Regulation. In accordance with Article 44(1) of the ESMA Regulation, the Board of Supervisors has adopted this opinion. Background 5. In its July 2013 report on ‘Retailisation in the EU’ , ESMA highlighted that, from a consumer protec-tion perspective, retail investors may face difficulties in understanding the drivers of risks and returns of structured products. If retail investors do not properly understand the risk and reward profile of structured products, and if the products are not properly assessed against the risk appetite of retail investors, retail investors might be exposed to unexpected losses and this might lead to complaints, reputational risks for manufacturers and distributors, and a loss of confidence in the regulatory framework and, more broadly, in financial markets. 6. In 2013, ESMA mapped the measures adopted in the EU Member States in relation to complex products in order to identify issues and to better understand the rationale behind national initiatives (by looking at similarities and differences in the various approaches, and reviewing how complexity has been treated in the different EU Members States). 7. As a result, ESMA has developed a broad set of non-exhaustive examples of good practices, attached as Annex 1 hereto, illustrating arrangements that firms - taking into account the nature, scale and complexity of their business - could put in place to improve their ability to deliver on investor protection regarding, in particular, (i) the complexity of the SRPs they manufacture or distribute, (ii) the nature and range of the investment services and activities undertaken in the course of that business, and (iii) the type of investors they target. These good practices should also be a helpful tool for competent authorities in carrying out their supervisory action. Opinion 8. ESMA considers that sound product governance arrangements are fundamental for investor protec-tion purposes, and can reduce the need for product intervention actions by competent authorities. 9. ESMA considers that, when supervising firms manufacturing or distributing an SRP, competent authorities should promote, in their supervisory approaches, the examples of good practices for firms set out in Annex 1 hereto. 10. Although the good practices set out in Annex 1 hereto focus on structured products sold to retail investors, ESMA considers that they may also be a relevant reference for other types of financial in-struments (such as asset-backed securities, or contingent convertible bonds), as well as when financial instruments are being sold to professional clients. 11. The exposure to risk is an intrinsic feature of investment products. The good practices set out in Annex 1 refer to product governance arrangements and do not (and cannot) aim at removing investment risk from products. | |||
03/11/2009 | 09-559 | Questions and Answers- MiFID complex and non complex financial instruments for the purposes of the Directive’s appropriateness requirements | CESR Archive | Q&A | PDF 405.18 KB |
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06/05/2010 | 10-591 | Questions and answers on MiFID: Common positions agreed by CESR Members in the area of the Secondary Markets Standing Committee | CESR Archive | Q&A | PDF 130.84 KB |
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19/04/2010 | 10-293 | Question and Answers- Understanding the definition of advice under MiFID | CESR Archive | Q&A | PDF 335.78 KB |
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11/04/2019 | ESMA31-67-127 | Question and answers on Transparency Directive (TD) | Brexit, Corporate Disclosure, Corporate Finance, Supervisory convergence, Transparency | Q&A | PDF 352.79 KB |
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22/12/2020 | ESMA35-43-349 | Q&As on MiFID II and MiFIR investor protection topics | MiFID - Investor Protection, Supervisory convergence | Q&A | PDF 651.6 KB |
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31/03/2017 | ESMA35-36-794 | Q&A Relating to the provision of CFDs and other speculative products to retail investors under MiFID | MiFID - Investor Protection | Q&A | PDF 948.76 KB |
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29/03/2019 | ESMA70-145-111 | Q&A on the Market Abuse Regulation | Market Abuse, Market Integrity | Q&A | PDF 400.21 KB |
The purpose of this document is to promote common supervisory approaches and practices in the application of MAR and its implementing measures. It does this by providing responses to questions posed by the general public and competent authorities in relation to the practical application of the MAR framework The content of this document is aimed at competent authorities to ensure that in their supervisory activities and their actions are converging along the lines of the responses adopted by ESMA and at helping issuers, investors and other market participants by providing clarity on the content of the market abuse rules, rather than creating an extra layer of requirements. |
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08/07/2020 | ESMA70-1861941480-56 | Q&A on MiFIR data reporting | MiFID - Secondary Markets, Supervisory convergence | Q&A | PDF 1.03 MB |
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29/05/2020 | ESMA70-872942901-35 | Q&A on MiFID II and MiFIR transparency topics | MiFID - Secondary Markets | Q&A | PDF 1004.2 KB |
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29/05/2020 | ESMA70-872942901-38 | Q&A on MiFID II and MiFIR market structures topics | MiFID - Secondary Markets | Q&A | PDF 537.51 KB |
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27/03/2019 | ESMA70-872942901-36 | Q&A on MiFID II and MiFIR commodity derivatives topics | MiFID - Secondary Markets | Q&A | PDF 602.38 KB |
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29/05/2007 | 07-320 | Q&A on Best Execution | CESR Archive | Q&A | PDF 578.51 KB |
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01/04/2016 | 2016/419 | Q&A Market Abuse Directive | Market Abuse | Q&A | PDF 175.08 KB |
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20/06/2019 | ESMA70-155-2925 | Position limit on French Power Peak contracts | MiFID - Secondary Markets | Opinion | PDF 235.2 KB |
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20/06/2019 | ESMA70-155-2941 | Position limit on French Power Base contracts | MiFID - Secondary Markets | Opinion | PDF 232.18 KB |
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24/09/2019 | ESMA70-155-5827 | Position limit on EEX Italian Power Peak contracts | MiFID - Secondary Markets | Opinion | PDF 234.36 KB |
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24/09/2019 | ESMA70-155-2929 | Position limit on EEX Italian Power Base contracts | MiFID - Secondary Markets | Opinion | PDF 223.5 KB |
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20/06/2019 | ESMA70-155-4451 | Position limit on Czech PXE Power Base contract | MiFID - Secondary Markets | Opinion | PDF 261.58 KB |