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09/07/2020 ESMA70-151-3192 Letter to EC re EMIR 2.2 Delegated Acts on tiering criteria, comparable compliance and fees for third-country CCPs CCP Directorate, Post Trading Letter PDF
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01/04/2020 ESMA35-43-2126 Technical Advice on the impact of the inducements and costs and charges disclosure requirements under MiFID II MiFID - Investor Protection Technical Advice PDF
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04/02/2020 ESMA35-43-2134 ESMA’s Technical Advice to the Commission on the effects of product intervention measures MiFID - Investor Protection Technical Advice PDF
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18/07/2019 ESMA33-9-321 Technical Advice on Sustainability Considerations in the Credit Rating Market Credit Rating Agencies Technical Advice PDF
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14/05/2019 FISMA.C.3/IK/TL/Ares(2019)2120576 EC Art 38 MAR mandate Market Abuse, Market Integrity Letter PDF
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01/10/2018 ESMA70-156-236 Letter to the Commission on MiFID II third country regime MiFID - Investor Protection Letter PDF
152.92 KB
01/10/2018 ESMA35-36-1442 IPISC UK withdrawal from the EU Letter MiFID - Investor Protection Letter PDF
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30/01/2017 ESMA70-708036281-19 Letter to European Commission- EMIR Review and Sanctioning Powers Credit Rating Agencies, Post Trading Letter PDF
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05/01/2017 2016/1621 2016-1621 ESMA letter to EC on postponement of ESEF RTS Corporate Disclosure, European Single Electronic Format, Transparency Letter PDF
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26/07/2016 2016/1164 Letter to the Commissioner Dombrovskis on MAR ITS Market Abuse, Market Integrity Letter PDF
205.33 KB
26/04/2016 2016/648 ESMA response to the Commission Green Paper on retail financial services MiFID - Investor Protection Letter PDF
197.44 KB
09/02/2016 2016/235 Comment letter on Taxonomy due process Corporate Disclosure, European Single Electronic Format, Transparency Letter PDF
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27/01/2016 ESA/2016/07 The cross-selling of financial products – ESA request to the European Commission Joint Committee, MiFID - Investor Protection Letter PDF
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17/11/2015 2015/1513 Letter SM to EC- implementation timeline MiFID MiFIR MiFID - Investor Protection Letter PDF
85.8 KB
02/10/2015 2015/1472 Technical Advice on Competition, Choice and Conflicts of Interest in the CRA industry Credit Rating Agencies Technical Advice PDF
2.48 MB
02/10/2015 2015/1471 Technical Advice on Reducing Sole and Mechanistic Reliance on Credit Ratings Credit Rating Agencies Technical Advice PDF
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19/12/2014 2014/1569 Technical Advice to the Commission on MiFID II and MiFIR MiFID - Investor Protection, MiFID - Secondary Markets Technical Advice PDF
2.8 MB		 Reasons for publication The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) received a formal request (mandate) from the European Commission (Commission) on 23 April 2014 to provide technical advice to assist the Commission on the possible content of the delegated acts required by several provisions of Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) and the Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR). The mandate focuses on technical issues which follow from MiFID II and MiFIR and is available on the European Commission website (here). ESMA was required to provide technical advice by no later than six months after the entry into force of MiFID II and MiFIR (2 July 2014). Contents This final report follows the same structure as the Consultation Paper  (CP) published by ESMA on 22 May 2014 which is: (1) Introduction, (2) Investor protection, (3) Transparency, (4) Data publication, (5) Micro-structural issues, (6) Requirements applying on and to trading venues, (7) Commodity derivatives and (8) Portfolio compression. This paper also contains summaries of responses to the CP received by ESMA. The rationale of those items covered already in the CP for which no relevant changes have been introduced, is not developed again in this Final Report. ESMA recommends, therefore, to read this report together with the CP published on 22 May 2014 to have a complete vision of the rationale for ESMA’s technical advice. Next steps Delegated acts should be adopted by the Commission so that they enter into application by 30 months following the entry into force of the Directive and Regulation, taking into account the right of the European Parliament and Council to object to a delegated act within 3 months (which can be extended by a further 3 months).
17/09/2014 2014/850rev Technical Advice in accordance with Article 39(b) 2 of the CRA Regulation Credit Rating Agencies Technical Advice PDF
370.42 KB		 This document has been revised to reflect an amended figure in Table 1 and two re-classifications of solicitation status in Table 2. Article 39b(2) of the CRA Regulation states that the European Commission shall adopt a report by end 2014 – after receiving ESMA’s technical advice – on the appropriateness of the development of a European creditworthiness assessment for sovereign debt. In its request for advice, the Commission asked ESMA to provide input on the issue of sovereign ratings and rating processes including an overview of the market for sovereign ratings, information on operational issues regarding sovereign ratings, information on sovereign rating processes as well as lessons drawn from ESMA’s supervisory experience. Contents For the purposes of this advice, ESMA provides its views based on the quantitative information contained in the CEREP public database and on information publicly disclosed by credit rating agencies registered with ESMA. Additionally, ESMA’s advice has been informed by its first supervisory activities regarding the rating process for sovereign ratings of CRAs which are active in the EU sovereign rating market. In accordance with the CRA Regulation, these supervisory activities did not address the content of the sovereign methodologies themselves but rather were concerned with the independence, transparency and governance of the sovereign rating process. Sovereign credit ratings play a crucial role from a credit market and financial stability perspective, not least because sovereign governments account for the largest group of borrowers in capital markets in terms of volume. In addition the crucial importance of these sovereign ratings can be amplified by the “cascade” effect sovereign ratings have on other asset classes via their presence as factors in other asset methodologies. In the EU the sovereign rating market is composed of nine CRAs established in nine different EU member states. These nine CRAs exhibit a high level of variation with respect to the type and number of sovereign ratings they assign. Sovereign credit ratings themselves can also be differentiated in various ways depending on such factors as local/foreign currency, duration of issuance, whether the rating applies to a specific issuer or issuance and if it is solicited or unsolicited. In addition ESMA would like to emphasise the following points which it believes to be important when considering the appropriateness of the development of a European creditworthiness assessment of sovereign debt.
24/06/2014 2014/686 Letter to Commissioner Barnier re draft Regulatory Technical Standards under the CRA3 Regulation Credit Rating Agencies Letter PDF
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28/01/2014 2013/1941 Letter to Jonathan Faull (EC) regarding draft technical standards MiFID - Investor Protection, MiFID - Secondary Markets Letter PDF
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