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Reset all filters| Date | Ref. | Title | Section | Type | Download | Info | Summary | Related Documents | Translated versions |
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| 20/04/2012 | 2012/236 | ESMA's Technical Advice on possible delegated acts of the short-selling and certain aspects of CDS | Short Selling, Market Integrity | Technical Advice | PDF 509.39 KB |
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| 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. | |||
| 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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| 10/04/2019 | JC 2019 25 | Joint ESA advice on the costs and benefits of developing a coherent cyber resilience testing framework for significant market participants and infrastructures | Innovation and Products, Joint Committee | Technical Advice | PDF 785.49 KB |
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| 10/04/2019 | JC 2019 26 | Joint ESA advice on the need for legislative improvements relating to ICT risk management requirements | Innovation and Products, Joint Committee | Technical Advice | PDF 1.34 MB |
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| 01/04/2016 | 2016/419 | Q&A Market Abuse Directive | Market Abuse | Q&A | PDF 175.08 KB |
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| 28/02/2022 | ESMA70-1861941480-52 | Q&A on EMIR implementation | Post Trading, Trade Repositories | Q&A | PDF 1.46 MB |
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| 23/06/2022 | ESMA70-145-114 | Q&A on the Benchmarks Regulation (BMR) | Benchmarks, Supervisory convergence | Q&A | PDF 568.37 KB |
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| 29/07/2021 | ESMA33-5-87 | Q&A on the Implementation of the Regulation (EU) No 462 2013 On CRA | Credit Rating Agencies | Q&A | PDF 409.83 KB |
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| 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. |
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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 248.14 KB |
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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 398.17 KB |
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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 352.79 KB |
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| 01/07/2015 | 2015/1005 | Questions and Answers: Investment-based crowdfunding: money laundering/terrorist financing | Innovation and Products | Q&A | PDF 157.73 KB |
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| 17/09/2014 | 2014/850rev | Technical Advice in accordance with Article 39(b) 2 of the CRA Regulation | Credit Rating Agencies | Technical Advice | PDF 370.42 KB |
This document has been revised to reflect an amended figure in Table 1 and two re-classifications of solicitation status in Table 2. Article 39b(2) of the CRA Regulation states that the European Commission shall adopt a report by end 2014 – after receiving ESMA’s technical advice – on the appropriateness of the development of a European creditworthiness assessment for sovereign debt. In its request for advice, the Commission asked ESMA to provide input on the issue of sovereign ratings and rating processes including an overview of the market for sovereign ratings, information on operational issues regarding sovereign ratings, information on sovereign rating processes as well as lessons drawn from ESMA’s supervisory experience. Contents For the purposes of this advice, ESMA provides its views based on the quantitative information contained in the CEREP public database and on information publicly disclosed by credit rating agencies registered with ESMA. Additionally, ESMA’s advice has been informed by its first supervisory activities regarding the rating process for sovereign ratings of CRAs which are active in the EU sovereign rating market. In accordance with the CRA Regulation, these supervisory activities did not address the content of the sovereign methodologies themselves but rather were concerned with the independence, transparency and governance of the sovereign rating process. Sovereign credit ratings play a crucial role from a credit market and financial stability perspective, not least because sovereign governments account for the largest group of borrowers in capital markets in terms of volume. In addition the crucial importance of these sovereign ratings can be amplified by the “cascade” effect sovereign ratings have on other asset classes via their presence as factors in other asset methodologies. In the EU the sovereign rating market is composed of nine CRAs established in nine different EU member states. These nine CRAs exhibit a high level of variation with respect to the type and number of sovereign ratings they assign. Sovereign credit ratings themselves can also be differentiated in various ways depending on such factors as local/foreign currency, duration of issuance, whether the rating applies to a specific issuer or issuance and if it is solicited or unsolicited. In addition ESMA would like to emphasise the following points which it believes to be important when considering the appropriateness of the development of a European creditworthiness assessment of sovereign debt. | |||
| 02/10/2015 | 2015/1472 | Technical Advice on Competition, Choice and Conflicts of Interest in the CRA industry | Credit Rating Agencies | Technical Advice | PDF 2.48 MB |
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| 31/05/2013 | 2013/626 | Technical advice on CRA regulatory equivalence on Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Hong Kong and Singapore | Credit Rating Agencies | Technical Advice | PDF 840.48 KB |
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has provided advice to the European Commission in respect of the equivalence between the EU regulatory regime for credit rating agencies and the respective legal and supervisory frameworks of Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Hong Kong and Singapore. This is in response to the European Commission’s request for technical advice from ESMA on the equivalence of these jurisdictions legal and supervisory frameworks with the EU regulatory regime for credit rating agencies as set out in Regulation (EC) No. 1060/2009 of the European Parliament and the Council on credit rating agencies. The European Commission has already published equivalence decisions on US, Canada and Australia, on 9 October 2012, and on Japan, 28 October 2010. Regarding compliance with the EU requirements on endorsement, ESMA has already indicated that it considers the legal and regulatory regime for CRAs supervision of the following countries as “as stringent as” the EU requirements: 15 March 2012, Hong Kong and Singapore; 18 April 2012, Argentina and Mexico; 27 April 2012, Brazil. | |||
| 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. | |||
| 02/10/2015 | 2015/1471 | Technical Advice on Reducing Sole and Mechanistic Reliance on Credit Ratings | Credit Rating Agencies | Technical Advice | PDF 1.1 MB |
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| 18/07/2019 | ESMA33-9-321 | Technical Advice on Sustainability Considerations in the Credit Rating Market | Credit Rating Agencies | Technical Advice | PDF 451.01 KB |