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11/05/2005 05-274 Feedback Statement- Market Abuse Directive, Level 3 – first set of guidance and information on the common operation of the Directive Market Abuse Final Report PDF
79.76 KB		 http://www.cesr-eu.org/data/document/05_274.pdf
22/11/2007 07-693 Report on Administrative Measures and Sanctions available in Member States under the Market Abuse Directive (MAD) Market Abuse Final Report PDF
3.44 MB
28/02/2008 08-099 CESR Executive summary to the report on administrative measures and sanctions as well as the criminal sanctions available in Member States under the Market Abuse Directive Market Abuse Final Report PDF
874.1 KB
14/04/2011 2011/112 Final report- Guidelines to competent authorities and UCITS management companies on risk meas-urement and the calculation of global exposure for certain types of structured UCITS Fund Management Final Report PDF
166.5 KB
06/07/2011 2011/203 The European Fund Industry Paradigm Fund Management, Speeches Speech PDF
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The European Fund Industry Paradigm: Combining Long Term Investment Horizons and Risk Profiles Opening speech by Steven Maijoor, Chair of ESMA, at the Paris EUROPLACE Financial Forum - 6 July 2011
28/03/2011 2011/22 Report- ESMA Data on Prospectuses Approved and Passported- July 2010 to December 2010 Prospectus, Corporate Disclosure Final Report PDF
134.79 KB
25/07/2012 2012/474 Report and consultation paper on guidelines on ETFs and other UCITS issues Fund Management Final Report PDF
728.1 KB		 This paper sets out ESMA’s guidelines on ETFs and other UCITS issues. The guidelines are adapted to the type of UCITS, management technique or financial instrument in question and are detailed in Annex III of the documentThis document also sets out in Annex IV a public consultation on the treatment of repo and reverse repo arrangements on which ESMA is seeking feedback from stakeholders. The feedback to this further consultation will be used by ESMA to finalise its position on this specific issue, which will be incorporated into the rest of the guidelines already adopted by the Authority (cf. Annex III of this document).
26/07/2012 2012/482 Review of Greek Government Bonds accounting practices Corporate Disclosure, IFRS Supervisory Convergence Final Report PDF
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This report includes a Review of Greek Government Bonds accounting practices in the IFRS Financial Statements for the year ended 31 December 2011.
16/08/2012 2012/525 Summary of responses on considerations of materiality in financial reporting Corporate Disclosure, IFRS Supervisory Convergence Final Report PDF
383.4 KB
19/09/2012 2012/579 Statement by Steven Maijoor at the ECON hearing on 19/09/2012 Corporate Information, Speeches Speech PDF
190.14 KB		 Statement given by Steven Maijoor, Chair of ESMA, at the ECON hearing in the European Parliament on 19 September 2012
25/09/2012 2012/602 ESMA Data on Prospectuses Approved and Passported- January 2011 to December 2011 Prospectus, Corporate Disclosure Final Report PDF
573.49 KB
25/09/2012 2012/603 ESMA Data on Prospectuses Approved and Passported- January 2012 to June 2012 Prospectus, Corporate Disclosure Final Report PDF
431.12 KB		 NOTE: This Report is an amended version of the Report published on 25 September 2012. The previously published Report was amended on 15 May 2013 following the discovery of factual errors in the statis-tical information in Section III.2.   Title ESMA Data on Prospectuses Approved and Passported - January 2012 to June 2012
04/12/2012 2012/722 Guidelines on repurchase and reverse repurchase agreements Fund Management Final Report PDF
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The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has today published its final guidelines on repurchase and reverse repurchase agreements for UCITS funds.  The guidelines state that UCITS should only enter into such agreements if they are able to recall at any time any assets or the full amount of cash.
04/12/2012 2012/800 ESMA’s role in markets reform- Verena Ross, ESMA Executive Director Corporate Information, Speeches Speech PDF
147.98 KB		 Verena Ross, ESMA Executive Director, delivered the keynote address at the ICI Global Trading and Market Structure Conference in London.
04/12/2012 2012/803 Rebuilding investors trust in EU capital markets- Steven Maijoor, ESMA Chair Corporate Information, Speeches Speech PDF
150.43 KB		 Steven Maijoor, Chair of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), delivered the keynote address at the DSW Finuse Conference in Wiesbaden on 4 December 2012.
15/11/2013 2013/1339 Guidelines on reporting obligations under Articles 3(3)(d) and 24(1), (2) and (4) of the AIFMD (revised) Fund Management Final Report PDF
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18/11/2013 2013/1664 Review of Accounting Practices- Comparability of IFRS Financial Statements of Financial Institutions in Europe Corporate Disclosure Final Report PDF
1.3 MB		 This report provides an overview of accounting practices of financial institutions in Europe in selected areas related to financial instruments. It evaluates the level of comparability and quality of the disclosures in the 2012 IFRS financial statements of a sample of 39 major European financial institutions and includes recommendations to enhance the transparency of financial information through the application of the IFRS provisions. Transparent financial information plays a key role in maintaining market confidence, improving markets’ efficiency by allowing investors to identify risks in a timely manner, contributing to financial stability and is a pre-requisite in creating premises for sound economic growth. As an effect of market turbulences resulting from the financial crisis, transparency and comparability of the financial statements of financial institutions have gained increased importance for market participants. In this context, ESMA has intensified its reviewing activities, with an increased focus on the financial statements of financial institutions and together with EBA and ESRB has undertaken further initiatives to improve the level of confidence in the financial sector by asking financial institutions to provide better disclosure of financial and risk information in financial reporting. Overall ESMA found that disclosures specifically covered by requirements of IFRS 7 – Financial Instru-ments: Disclosures were generally provided and acknowledges the efforts made by financial institutions to improve the quality of their financial statements. Yet, ESMA observed a wide variability in the quality of the information provided and identified some cases where the information provided was not sufficient or not sufficiently structured to allow comparability among financial institutions. Some financial institutions provided disclosures that were not specific enough, lacked links between quantitative and narrative information, or provided disclosures that could not be reconciled to the primary financial statements. ESMA urges issuers to take a step back and consider the overall objectives of IFRS 7 against their specific circumstances when preparing disclosures. When information was provided outside financial statements (e.g. in a risk report or business review), in some cases it was unclear whether it was incorporated by reference. In general, users of financial infor-mation would benefit if information provided in different sections of the financial report were linked to each other and if information provided across these reports was consistent or major differences in bases used to provide this information were explained.
18/12/2013 2013/1943 ESMA Data on Prospectuses Approved and Passported—January 2013 to June 2013 Prospectus, Corporate Disclosure Final Report PDF
338.17 KB
14/02/2013 2013/218 Considerations of materiality in financial reporting Corporate Disclosure, IFRS Supervisory Convergence Final Report PDF
446.95 KB
11/03/2013 2013/279 "Regulation of systemically important financial institutions and of the shadow banking system"- speech by Steven Maijoor, Chair, at the CDU/CSU congress in Berlin Corporate Information, Speeches Speech PDF
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