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Date | Ref. | Title | Section | Type | Download | Info | Summary | Related Documents | Translated versions |
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04/01/2021 | ESMA71-99-1498 | Brexit: ESMA withdraws the registrations of six UK-based credit rating agencies and four trade repositories | Brexit, Credit Rating Agencies, Press Releases, Trade Repositories | Press Release | PDF 94.63 KB |
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30/03/2021 | ESMA71-99-1622 | CRA Enforcement Case Moodys March 2021 | Board of Supervisors, Credit Rating Agencies, Press Releases | Press Release | PDF 134.39 KB |
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23/07/2018 | ESMA71-99-1017 | CRA fine- ESMA fines five banks | Credit Rating Agencies, Press Releases | Press Release | PDF 223.54 KB |
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15/03/2012 | 2012/158 | ESMA allows EU-registered CRAs to endorse credit ratings issued in the US, Canada, Hong Kong and Singapore | Credit Rating Agencies | Press Release | PDF 189.93 KB |
ESMA today announces that it considers the regulatory frameworks for credit rating agencies (CRAs) of the United States of America, Canada, Hong Kong and Singapore to be in line with European rules. The EU Regulation (EC) No 1060/2009 on Credit Rating Agencies1 requires ESMA to assess whether the requirements of third-country CRA regimes are “as stringent as” the European ones. Today’s announcement allows European financial institutions to continue using for regulatory purposes credit ratings issued in these countries after 30 April 2012. ESMA’s assessment of third-country CRA regimes is an important tool for enhancing internationally consistent supervision of CRAs in the interests of protecting financial markets and investors in the EU. | |||
01/02/2019 | ESMA71-99-1096 | ESMA and EU securities regulators MoUs with FCA | Board of Supervisors, Brexit, Credit Rating Agencies, Fund Management, Press Releases, Trade Repositories | Press Release | PDF 80.5 KB |
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04/12/2018 | ESMA71-99-1069 | ESMA appoints a new Securities and Markets Stakeholder Group | Securities and Markets Stakeholder Group | Press Release | PDF 162.11 KB |
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01/07/2016 | 2016/1066 | ESMA appoints new Securities and Markets Stakeholder Group | Press Releases, Securities and Markets Stakeholder Group | Press Release | PDF 156.76 KB |
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published the new list of members of its Securities and Markets Stakeholder Group (SMSG) following its approval by its Board of Supervisors. The selected individuals begin a 2½ year term on 1 July 2016 and will replace the group whose mandate expired on 30 June 2016. The new SMSG will be composed of 30 individuals drawn from across 13 Member States and representing ESMA’s key stakeholder constituencies – financial market participants (10), employee representatives (2), consumer representatives (6), users of financial services (3), small and medium sized enterprises (2) and academics (7). The new SMSG will feature 27 new members. A number of the incoming members have served in the previous SMSG. The SMSG was established according to ESMA’s founding regulation and facilitates consultation between ESMA and its key financial market stakeholders on its work. The SMSG provides ESMA with opinions and advice on its policy work and must be consulted on technical standards and guidelines and recommendations. Additionally, it can inform ESMA of any inconsistent application of European Union law as well as inconsistent supervisory practices in Member States. |
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12/12/2013 | 2013/1909 | ESMA appoints new Securities Markets Stakeholders Group members | Press Releases, Securities and Markets Stakeholder Group | Press Release | PDF 108.69 KB |
ESMA appoints new Securities Markets Stakeholders Group members The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has announced the composition of its Securities Markets Stakeholder Group (SMSG) following its approval by ESMA’s Board of Supervisors. These individuals will begin a term of 2½ years on 1 January 2014 and will replace the group whose mandate expires on 31 December 2013. The new SMSG will be composed of 30 individuals drawn from across 17 Member States and representing ESMA’s key stakeholder constituencies – consumer representatives (4), users of financial services (5), financial market participants (10), financial institution employees (2), small and medium sized enterprises (1) and academics (8). A number of the incoming members have previously served in the first SMSG. The SMSG was set up to facilitate consultation with key financial market stakeholders on all aspects of ESMA’s work. The SMSG provides ESMA with opinions and advice on policy workstreams and must be consulted on technical standards and guidelines and recommendations. In addition, the Stakeholder Group is expected to notify ESMA of any inconsistent application of European Union law as well as inconsistent supervisory practices in the Member States. Steven Maijoor, ESMA Chair, said: “The SMSG makes an important contribution to ESMA’s policy development, providing us with timely and valuable input on how our regulatory activities may potentially affect the different users of financial markets. “We have enjoyed a very good working relationship with the outgoing members of the SMSG who, as well as contributing their views and experience to our policymaking discussions, have been pioneers in developing the role of their group as part of the new European System of Financial Supervision. I look forward to working with the SMSG’s new members on a host of challenging issues.” The SMSG meets at least four times a year, and in addition meets twice with ESMA’s Board of Supervisors. Their advice and opinions are published on ESMA’s website. | |||
18/04/2012 | 2012/256 | ESMA approves credit ratings from Argentina and Mexico for use in the EU | Credit Rating Agencies, Press Releases | Press Release | PDF 186.59 KB |
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) announces today that it considers the regulatory frameworks for credit rating agencies (CRAs) of Argentina and Mexico to be in line with European Union rules. Today’s announcement allows European financial institutions to continue using credit ratings issued in these countries for regulatory purposes after 30 April 2012.In order to facilitate regulatory information exchange, and as a precondition to endorsement, ESMA has entered into co-operation agreements for the supervision of CRAs with the national competent authorities of Argentina and Mexico. Ratings issued under the regulatory frameworks of Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore and the United States have already been approved for use in the EU. | |||
27/04/2012 | 2012/274 | ESMA approves credit ratings from Brazil for use in the EU | Credit Rating Agencies, Press Releases | Press Release | PDF 182.58 KB |
ESMA considers the regulatory framework for credit rating agencies (CRAs) of Brazil to be in line with European Union rules. This allows European financial institutions to continue using credit ratings issued in Brazil for regulatory purposes after 30 April 2012. In order to facilitate the exchange of regulatory information, and as a precondition to endorsement, ESMA has also entered into a co-operation agreement for the supervision of CRAs with the Securities and Exchange Commission of Brazil (Comissão de Valores Mobiliários – CVM). | |||
07/06/2013 | 2013/700 | ESMA approves Dagong Europe as a credit rating agency | Credit Rating Agencies | Press Release | PDF 73.5 KB |
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has formally approved the registration of Dagong Europe Credit Rating Srl (Dagong Europe), based in Italy, as a credit rating agency (CRA) under Article 16 of the CRA Regulation. The registration takes effect from 13 June 2013. | |||
30/05/2013 | 2013/630 | ESMA approves EIU as a credit rating agency | Credit Rating Agencies, Press Releases | Press Release | PDF 73.53 KB |
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has formally approved the registration of the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), based in the United Kingdom, as a credit rating agency (CRA) under Article 16 of the CRA Regulation. The registration takes effect from 3 June 2013. EIU’s registration as a CRA means that its credit ratings can be used for regulatory purposes under EU legislation. | |||
01/07/2013 | 2013/853 | ESMA approves Spread Research as a credit rating agency | Credit Rating Agencies | Press Release | PDF 73.4 KB |
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has formally approved the registration of Spread Research SAS, based in France, as a credit rating agency (CRA) under Article 16 of the CRA Regulation. The registration takes effect from 1 July 2013. | |||
03/06/2014 | 2014/596 | ESMA censures Standard & Poor’s for internal control failings | Credit Rating Agencies, Press Releases | Press Release | PDF 111.54 KB |
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has issued a public notice censuring Standard & Poor’s Credit Market Services France SAS and Standard & Poor’s Credit Market Services Europe Limited (S&P) for breaches of Regulation 1060/2009 (CRA Regulation). The decision by ESMA to issue a public notice results from its investigation into the erroneous publication on 10 November 2011 by S&P, to the subscribers of its Global Credit Portal, of an email stating “France (Republic of) (Unsolicited Ratings): DOWNGRADE”, although S&P’s rating of France had not been downgraded. ESMA found that this incident was the result of a failure by S&P to meet certain organisational requirements set out in the CRA Regulation, relating to sound internal control mechanisms, effective control and safeguard arrangements for information processing systems and decision-making procedures and organisational structures. ESMA, based on the provisions of the CRA Regulation, decided that the relevant breaches warranted a supervisory measure in the form of a public notice. The final decision on the supervisory measure took into account the steps taken by S&P to end the infringement and was considered proportionate to the seriousness of the breach. Case Background S&P, on 10 November 2011 at 15:57 CET, erroneously released to subscribers of its web-based Global Credit Portal (GCP) an email alert which stated in its header “France (Republic of) (Unsolicited Ratings): DOWNGRADE”, although S&P’s credit rating of France had not changed. GCP is one of the methods used by S&P to disseminate its credit ratings and other financial information products. Among other services, it provides an email alert function that a subscriber can customise in order to receive alerts when certain information changes on GCP, e.g. in case S&P decides to change a credit rating on a particular issuer. S&P’s internal database, where it maintained its credit ratings, was also used to store its Banking Industry Country Risk Assessments (BICRAs). BICRAs are not credit ratings but assessments of the banking systems in particular countries and have been published since 2006. S&P later decided to maintain BICRAs in the same centralised internal database as its credit ratings and to display BICRAs on GCP. The relevant technical specifications for this project treated BICRAs as ratings and no effective action was taken to address the implications this could have. This eventually led to the erroneous release when an attempt to change an incorrect display of France’s BICRA on GCP triggered an email alert stating in its header that the rating of France had been downgraded. ESMA’s Role Since July 2011 ESMA has been responsible for the regulation of credit rating agencies in the European Union including their registration and supervision in line with the requirements of the CRA Regulation. ESMA has the power to take appropriate enforcement action where it discovers a breach of the CRA Regulation, ranging from the issuance of public notices to the withdrawal of registration and imposition of fines. | |||
17/06/2013 | 2013/743 | ESMA clarifies boundary of CRA Regulation | Credit Rating Agencies | Press Release | PDF 119.21 KB |
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17/11/2017 | ESMA71-99-642 | ESMA clarifies endorsement regime for third-country credit ratings | Credit Rating Agencies | Press Release | PDF 307.12 KB |
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30/09/2016 | 2016/1411 | ESMA consults on future reporting rules for securities financing transactions | Post Trading, Press Releases, Securities Financing Transactions | Press Release | PDF 148.11 KB |
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has issued today a consultation paper on draft technical standards implementing the Securities Financing Transaction Regulation (SFTR), which aims to increase the transparency of shadow banking activities. Securities financing transactions (SFTs) are transactions where securities are used to borrow cash (or other higher investment-grade securities), or vice versa – this includes repurchase transactions, securities lending and sell/buy-back transactions. |
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11/02/2014 | 2014/165 | ESMA consults on new CRA transparency requirements | Credit Rating Agencies | Press Release | PDF 105.23 KB |
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15/11/2016 | 2016/1577 | ESMA finalises Guidelines on the validation and review of Credit Rating Agencies’ methodologies | Credit Rating Agencies, Press Releases | Press Release | PDF 215.45 KB |
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01/06/2017 | ESMA71-99-466 | ESMA fines Moody’s €1.24 million for credit ratings breaches | Board of Supervisors, Credit Rating Agencies, Press Releases | Press Release | PDF 238.35 KB |
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has fined Moody’s Deutschland GmbH (Moody’s Germany) €750,000 and Moody’s Investors Service Limited (Moody’s UK) €490,000, and issued a public notice, for two negligent breaches of the Credit Rating Agencies Regulation (CRAR). ESMA found that Moody’s Germany and Moody’s UK negligently committed two infringements of the CRAR regarding their public announcement of certain ratings and their public disclosure of methodologies used to determine those ratings. These failures concern nineteen ratings issued between June 2011 and December 2013 for nine supranational entities including the European Investment Bank, the European Investment Fund, the European Stability Mechanism, the European Financial Stability Facility and the European Union. |