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Date	Ref.	Title	Section	Type	Download	Info	Summary	Related Documents	Translated versions
10/10/2019	ESMA71-319-144	Building the EU Capital Markets Union while fostering global financial markets- EU-Asia Financial Dialogue/ASIFMA Conference	International cooperation, Speeches, Supervisory convergence, Sustainable finance	Speech	PDF 135.51 KB		EU-Asia Financial Dialogue/ASIFMA Conference, Tokyo 10 October
09/10/2020	ESM22-103-1158	ESM22-103-1158 Keynote Speech- Verena Ross- AFME Compliance and Legal Conference	COVID-19, Market Abuse, Market Integrity, MiFID - Secondary Markets, Speeches	Speech	PDF 133.94 KB
08/10/2021	ESMA74-362-2159	ESMA as a data driven regulator and supervisor- AFME 5th Annual European Compliance and Legal Virtual Conference	Market data, MiFID - Secondary Markets, MiFID II: Transparency Calculations and DVC, Post Trading, Risk Analysis & Economics - Markets Infrastructure Investors, Securitisation, Speeches, Supervisory convergence, Trade Repositories, Transparency	Speech	PDF 167.18 KB
03/02/2015	2015/224	ESMA’s technical advice on possible delegated acts concerning the Market Abuse Regulation	Market Abuse	Technical Advice	PDF 1021.03 KB		This advice:• specifies the MAR market manipulation indicators, by providing examples of practices that may constitute market manipulation as well as proposing “additional” indicators of market manipulation; • recommends to set the minimum thresholds that exempt certain market participants in the emission allowance market from publicly disclosing inside information at six million tonnes of CO2eq per year and at 2,430 MW rated thermal input;• suggests the way to determine to which regulator delays in disclosure of inside information needs to be notified. • provides clarifications on the enhanced disclosure of managers’ transactions. - ESMA recommends disclosing any acquisition, disposal, subscription or exchange of financial instruments of the relevant issuer or related financial instruments carried out by managers,, further illustrated through a non-exhaustive list of types of transactions subject to this obligation. . ESMA also clarifies the transactions that can be allowed by the issuer during a closed period when normally managers are prohibited to trade; and• proposes procedures and arrangements to ensure sound whistleblowing infrastructures – i.e. EU national regulators should allow the receipt of reports of infringements, including appropriate communication channels and guarantee the protection of reporting and reported persons, with respect to their identity and their personal data. Next steps ESMA has sent its technical advice to the European Commission for its consideration in drafting its implementing standards regarding MAR. ESMA’s regulatory technical standards regarding MAR will be delivered in July 2015.
04/06/2019	ESMA71-319-120	FESE Dinner Address	Brexit, International cooperation, MiFID - Secondary Markets, Post Trading, Speeches	Speech	PDF 117.98 KB
01/04/2016	2016/419	Q&A Market Abuse Directive	Market Abuse	Q&A	PDF 175.08 KB
23/06/2022	ESMA70-145-111	Q&A on the Market Abuse Regulation	Market Abuse, Market Integrity	Q&A	PDF 470.97 KB		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.
09/11/2020	ESMA31-67-127	Question and answers on Transparency Directive (TD)	Brexit, Corporate Disclosure, Corporate Finance, Supervisory convergence, Transparency	Q&A	PDF 352.79 KB
08/12/2020	ESMA32-67-765	Speech Steven Maijoor- The three paradoxes of sustainability reporting and how to address them	IFRS Supervisory Convergence, Speeches, Sustainable finance, Transparency	Speech	PDF 123.06 KB
25/02/2021	ESMA70-155-11890	Statement CumEx CumCum scandal- Fabrizio Planta	Market Abuse, Market Integrity, Speeches, Trading	Speech	PDF 132.57 KB
12/05/2022	ESMA70-445-372	Verena Ross' ISDA keynote speech – ESMA’s priorities for transparency	Speeches, Transparency	Speech	PDF 177.57 KB
20/04/2022	ESMA80-187-945	Verena Ross' speech at ECMI/CEPS Webinar, 20 April 2022	Credit Rating Agencies, Trade Repositories, Transparency	Speech	PDF 178.1 KB		Verena Ross' speech at ECMI/CEPS Webinar, 20 April 2022: "ESMA – driving forward high-quality supervision and transparency in a single EU capital market"