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28/05/2014 2014/576 Voting Procedures for CCP colleges under EMIR Post Trading Opinion PDF
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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
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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.
13/05/2022 JC 2022 26 SFDR queries forwarded to the Commission Joint Committee, Sustainable finance Q&A PDF
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09/03/2015 2015/511 Revised opinion on draft RTS on the clearing obligation on interest rate swaps Post Trading Opinion PDF
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15/03/2013 2013/312 Regulatory technical standards on colleges for central counterparties supplementing Regulation (EU) No 648/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 July 2012 Post Trading Opinion PDF
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25/05/2022 Joint Committee SFDR Q&As Questions related to Regulation (EU) 2019/2088 on SFDR Joint Committee, Sustainable finance Q&A PDF
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19/12/2016 2016/JCESA QA Questions and Answers on Big Data Joint Committee Q&A PDF
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02/02/2018 ESMA70-151-1179 Questions and Answers ESMA CCP Stress Test Post Trading Q&A PDF
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09/11/2020 ESMA31-67-127 Question and answers on Transparency Directive (TD) Brexit, Corporate Disclosure, Corporate Finance, Supervisory convergence, Transparency Q&A PDF
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28/01/2022 ESMA74-362-893 QAs on SFTR data reporting Post Trading, Securities Financing Transactions, Trade Repositories Q&A PDF
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03/11/2020 ESMA71-99-1423 QA Fast Track Peer Review- Wirecard Corporate Disclosure, Guidelines and Technical standards, Supervisory convergence Q&A PDF
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20/05/2022 ESMA70-156-4448 Q&As- Central Securities Depositories Regulation Post Trading, Supervisory convergence Q&A PDF
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27/07/2021 ESMA31-62-1258 Q&As on the Prospectus Regulation Prospectus Q&A PDF
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19/11/2021 ESMA35-43-349 Q&As on MiFID II and MiFIR investor protection topics MiFID - Investor Protection, Supervisory convergence Q&A PDF
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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
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23/06/2022 ESMA70-145-111 Q&A on the Market Abuse Regulation Market Abuse, Market Integrity Q&A PDF
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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.
11/04/2019 ESMA31-62-780 Q&A on Prospectus Related Topics Brexit, Corporate Disclosure, Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance, Corporate Information, Prospectus, Supervisory convergence Q&A PDF
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20/07/2021 ESMA70-1861941480-56 Q&A on MiFIR data reporting MiFID - Secondary Markets, Supervisory convergence Q&A PDF
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20/05/2022 ESMA70-872942901-35 Q&A on MiFID II and MiFIR transparency topics MiFID - Secondary Markets Q&A PDF
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