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Reset all filters| Date | Ref. | Title | Section | Type | Download | Info | Summary | Related Documents | Translated versions |
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| 26/10/2010 | 10-1158 | CESR comment letter regarding the IAASB consultation on the Exposure Draft on ISAE 3420, Assurance Reports on the Process to Compile Pro Forma Financial Information Included in a Prospectus | CESR Archive, Audit | Letter | PDF 156.61 KB |
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| 10/12/2010 | 10-1353 | CESR Comment letter to the IAASB regarding the Consultation on the proposed revisions to International Standard on Auditing (ISA) 315, Identifying and Assessing the Risks of Material Misstatement through Understanding the Entity and Its Environment, and | CESR Archive, Audit | Letter | PDF 140.38 KB |
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| 04/01/2011 | 10-1541 | 3L3 Committees Joint Letter on the European Commission’s Green Paper on Audit: Lessons learnt from the Crisis | Joint Committee, Audit | Letter | PDF 144.8 KB |
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| 04/01/2011 | 10-1541 Annex 1 | 3L3 Committees Joint Letter on the European Commission’s Green Paper on Audit: Lessons learnt from the Crisis- CESR annex | Joint Committee, Audit | Letter | PDF 159.33 KB |
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| 04/01/2011 | 10-1541 Annex 2 | 3L3 Committees Joint Letter on the European Commission’s Green Paper on Audit: Lessons learnt from the Crisis- CEBS annex | Joint Committee, Audit | Letter | PDF 120.57 KB |
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| 04/01/2011 | 10-1541 Annex 3 | 3L3 Committees Joint Letter on the European Commission’s Green Paper on Audit: Lessons learnt from the Crisis- CEIOPS annex | Joint Committee, Audit | Letter | PDF 87.69 KB |
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| 09/06/2010 | 10-333 | Technical Advice- The Equivalence between the Japanese Regulatory and Supervisory Framework and the EU Regulatory Regime for Credit Rating Agencies | CESR Archive, Credit Rating Agencies | Technical Advice | PDF 4.59 MB |
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| 17/05/2011 | 2011/144 | Final advice- ESMA´s Technical Advice to the Commission on Fees for CRAs | Credit Rating Agencies | Technical Advice | PDF 1.72 MB |
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| 20/01/2011 | 2011/16 | Letter to the SEC- Rulemakings on Registration of non-resident Swap Data Repositories | MiFID - Secondary Markets | Letter | PDF 30.66 KB |
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| 25/10/2011 | 2011/353 | Comment letter to the IAASB- IAASB Consultation Paper | Audit | Letter | PDF 243.33 KB |
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| 20/01/2011 | 2011/4 | Letter to the CFTC- Rulemakings on Registration of foreign Swap Data Repositories and Foreign Boards of Trade | MiFID - Secondary Markets | Letter | PDF 34.38 KB |
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| 18/04/2012 | 2012/259 | Technical advice on CRA regulatory equivalence- US, Canada and Australia | Credit Rating Agencies | Technical Advice | PDF 697.78 KB |
On 12 June 2009 the European Commission requested CESR, now ESMA, to provide its technical advice on the equivalence between the legal and supervisory framework of Japan, The United States, and Canada with the EU regulatory regime for credit rating agencies. (Regulation (EC) No. 1060/2009 of the European Parliament and the Council on credit rating agencies ). On 17 November 2009, the Commission also requested CESR to provide its technical advice on Australia. On 28 September 2010, the European Commission published an equivalence decision on Japan. With regard to the compliance with the EU requirements on endorsement, ESMA had already indicated that it considers the legal and regulatory regime for CRAs supervision of the following countries as “as stringent as” the EU requirements: - On 22 December 2011, Japan and Australia; - On 15 March 2012, US, Canada, Hong Kong and Singapore. This report sets out ESMA’s advice to the European Commission in respect of the equivalence between the US (Part I), Canada (Part II) and Australia (Part III) respective legal and supervisory frameworks and the EU regulatory regime for credit rating agencies. | |||
| 27/07/2012 | 2012/476 | Reply of ESMA to the European Commission’s Green Paper on Shadow Banking | MiFID - Investor Protection | Letter | PDF 175.94 KB |
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| 20/12/2012 | 2012/849 | Letter to IAASB on Improving the Auditor's Report | Audit | Letter | PDF 263.73 KB |
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| 05/11/2013 | 2013/1552 | ESMA Comment Letter to the IASB on the Exposure Draft Insurance Contracts | IAS Regulation | Letter | PDF 167.33 KB |
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) comments on the IASB’s due process with regards to the Exposure Draft (ED) Insurance Contracts with the aim of improving the transparency and decision-usefulness of financial statements and the enforceability of IFRS. |
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| 05/11/2013 | 2013/1554 | ESMA Comment Letter to IFRS Interpretations Committee on application of IAS 34 | IAS Regulation | Letter | PDF 112 KB |
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| 05/11/2013 | 2013/1555 | ESMA Comment Letter to the IFRS Interpretations Committee on application of IAS 1 | IAS Regulation | Letter | PDF 224.94 KB |
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| 13/11/2013 | 2013/1561 | Review of the European System on Financial Supervision (ESFS) | Joint Committee | Letter | PDF 141.48 KB |
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| 21/11/2013 | 2013/1703 | Technical Advice on the feasibility of a network of small and medium-sized CRAs | Credit Rating Agencies | Technical Advice | PDF 601.05 KB |
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has finalised its Technical Advice to the European Commission on the feasibility of a network of small and medium sized credit rating agencies in order to increase competition in the market. The technical advice provides quantitative and qualitative information on small and medium-sized CRAs in the EU, based on the analysis of the periodic reporting obligations of CRAs to ESMA via the central repository CEREP. It also covers some information regarding possible barriers to entry for companies that wish to conduct rating activity in the EU. Contents The main findings of the advice are: • The 22 registered CRAs are established in 11 EU Member States; • None of the small and medium-sized CRAs cover the whole range of the five rating classes considered (corporates (non-financial), financials, insurance, sovereign and public finance, and structured finance). Whilst DBRS and BCRA cover four and three classes respectively, all the remaining small and medium-sized CRAs cover one or two rating classes only. This contrasts with Fitch, Moody’s and S&P that issue ratings for all five possible rating classes; • Small and medium-sized CRAs are mainly active in issuing corporate ratings. Within this rating type, four small and medium-sized CRAs issue a relatively high number of corporate ratings (CERVED and ICAP) or financial and insurance ratings (GBB and AM Best); • Only 6 of the small and medium-sized CRAs provide sovereign ratings (BCRA, Capital Intelligence, DBRS, European Rating, Feri Euro Rating (Feri) and Japan Credit Rating Agency (JCR)), whilst only one (DBRS) issues structured finance ratings; • As of end 2012 the majority of small and medium-sized CRAs issued solicited ratings only, whilst eight issued unsolicited ratings only. Three small and medium-sized CRAs (DBRS, JCR, and Scope) issued both solicited and unsolicited ratings, as was the case also for Fitch, Moody’s and S&P; • As regards geographical coverage of the small and medium-sized CRAs 6 out of 19 (AM Best, Capital Intelligence, Creditreform, DBRS, JCR and Scope) have a coverage that goes beyond one Member State when referring to corporate ratings. As regards the sovereign ratings type, three of the small and medium-sized CRAs cover more than one Member State (Capital Intelligence, Feri and JCR). In both of these ratings types, Fitch, Moody’s and S&P’s rating activities cover all Member States of the EU; • In 2013, 96% of the supervisory fees were paid by S&P, Moody’s, and Fitch, while their turnover from rating and ancillary services was equal to 88% of the total turnover of the 20 registered and certified CRAs in 2012: and • As of July 2013, 14 out of 19 small and medium-sized CRAs have been granted at least one of the regulatory exemptions provided for in the CRA Regulation. Finally, and with reference to the current situation in the segment of small and medium-sized CRAs, ESMA is not aware of any private networks of small and medium-sized CRAs currently in place. | |||
| 04/12/2013 | 2013/1880 | IAASB ED– Reporting on Audited Financial Statements | Audit | Letter | PDF 171.53 KB |