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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 |
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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 |
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15/05/2009 | 09-220 | Feedback statement- MAD Level 3 – Third set of CESR guidance and information on the common operation of the Directive to the market | Market Abuse | CESR Document | PDF 238.16 KB |
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11/01/2013 | EBA/BS/2013/002 | Report on the administration and management of Euribor | Risk Analysis & Economics - Markets Infrastructure Investors | Final Report | PDF 832.36 KB |
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14/02/2013 | 2013/212 | Trends, Risks and Vulnerabilities report | Risk Analysis & Economics - Markets Infrastructure Investors | Final Report | PDF 2.03 MB |
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14/02/2013 | 2013/213 | ESMA Risk Dashboard No.1, 2013 | Risk Analysis & Economics - Markets Infrastructure Investors | Final Report | PDF 717.92 KB |
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06/06/2013 | 2013/658 | Final Report- ESMA-EBA Principles for Benchmark-Setting Processes in the EU | Risk Analysis & Economics - Markets Infrastructure Investors | Final Report | PDF 620.19 KB |
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10/06/2013 | 2013/712 | ESMA Risk Dashboard No.2, 2013 | Risk Analysis & Economics - Markets Infrastructure Investors | Final Report | PDF 806.84 KB |
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01/07/2013 | 2013/805 | Supervisory Practices under MAD- Peer review report and Good Practices | Market Abuse, Supervisory convergence | Final Report | PDF 1.17 MB |
ESMA's peer review of the supervisory practices EEA national competent authorities (NCAs) covers how national authorities enforce the requirements of the Market Abuse Directive (MAD). The Directive deals with the prevention of the dissemination of misleading information, the breach of reporting obligations and market abuse. | |||
01/07/2013 | 2013/806 | Supervisory Practices under MAD- Mapping Report | Market Abuse, Supervisory convergence | Final Report | PDF 315.44 KB |
ESMA's Mapping Report on Supervisory Practices under MAD sets out the situation in each Member State as regards their implementation of the various requirements of the Market Abuse Directive. | |||
03/07/2013 | 2013/326 | Retailisation in the EU | Risk Analysis & Economics - Markets Infrastructure Investors | Final Report | PDF 976.31 KB |
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20/09/2013 | 2013/1139 | ESMA Risk Dashboard No.3, 2013 | Risk Analysis & Economics - Markets Infrastructure Investors | Final Report | PDF 891.55 KB |
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20/09/2013 | 2013/1138 | Trends, Risks, Vulnerabilities No. 2, 2013 | Risk Analysis & Economics - Markets Infrastructure Investors | Final Report | PDF 2.92 MB |
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15/11/2013 | 2013/1454 | ESMA Risk Dashboard No.4, 2013 | Risk Analysis & Economics - Markets Infrastructure Investors | Final Report | PDF 1.12 MB |
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) is publishing its Risk Dashboard No.4 for 2013. The Risk Dashboard provides a snapshot of risk issues in the third quarter of 2013 and covers the following areas: Economic environment and securities markets conditions; Liquidity Risk; Market Risk; Contagion Risk; and Credit Risk. | |||
12/03/2014 | 2014/197 | ESMA Risk Dashboard No.1, 2014 | Risk Analysis & Economics - Markets Infrastructure Investors | Final Report | PDF 743.09 KB |
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12/03/2014 | 2014/188 | Trends, Risks, Vulnerabilities No. 1, 2014 | Risk Analysis & Economics - Markets Infrastructure Investors | Final Report | PDF 2.33 MB |
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27/03/2014 | 2014/332 | Structured Retail Products- Good practices for product governance arrangements | MiFID - Investor Protection, Innovation and Products | Opinion | PDF 203.1 KB |
Legal basis 1. Regulation (EU) No 1095/2010 (ESMA Regulation) sets out the European Securities and Markets Authority’s (ESMA) scope of action, tasks and powers which include “enhancing customer protection”, and “foster[ing] investor protection”. 2. In order to continue delivering on this investor protection statutory objective, ESMA is issuing this opinion on certain aspects linked to the manufacturing and distribution of structured retail products (SRP). This opinion takes into account relevant work done in this field both at European and interna-tional level. 3. This opinion is without prejudice to the requirements for the provision of investment services and activities established in the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) and its implementing measures (notably, Directive 2006/73/EC), the regulatory developments arising from the MiFID review or existing product rules that may apply to SRPs. 4. ESMA’s competence to deliver an opinion is based on Article 29(1) (a) of the ESMA Regulation. In accordance with Article 44(1) of the ESMA Regulation, the Board of Supervisors has adopted this opinion. Background 5. In its July 2013 report on ‘Retailisation in the EU’ , ESMA highlighted that, from a consumer protec-tion perspective, retail investors may face difficulties in understanding the drivers of risks and returns of structured products. If retail investors do not properly understand the risk and reward profile of structured products, and if the products are not properly assessed against the risk appetite of retail investors, retail investors might be exposed to unexpected losses and this might lead to complaints, reputational risks for manufacturers and distributors, and a loss of confidence in the regulatory framework and, more broadly, in financial markets. 6. In 2013, ESMA mapped the measures adopted in the EU Member States in relation to complex products in order to identify issues and to better understand the rationale behind national initiatives (by looking at similarities and differences in the various approaches, and reviewing how complexity has been treated in the different EU Members States). 7. As a result, ESMA has developed a broad set of non-exhaustive examples of good practices, attached as Annex 1 hereto, illustrating arrangements that firms - taking into account the nature, scale and complexity of their business - could put in place to improve their ability to deliver on investor protection regarding, in particular, (i) the complexity of the SRPs they manufacture or distribute, (ii) the nature and range of the investment services and activities undertaken in the course of that business, and (iii) the type of investors they target. These good practices should also be a helpful tool for competent authorities in carrying out their supervisory action. Opinion 8. ESMA considers that sound product governance arrangements are fundamental for investor protec-tion purposes, and can reduce the need for product intervention actions by competent authorities. 9. ESMA considers that, when supervising firms manufacturing or distributing an SRP, competent authorities should promote, in their supervisory approaches, the examples of good practices for firms set out in Annex 1 hereto. 10. Although the good practices set out in Annex 1 hereto focus on structured products sold to retail investors, ESMA considers that they may also be a relevant reference for other types of financial in-struments (such as asset-backed securities, or contingent convertible bonds), as well as when financial instruments are being sold to professional clients. 11. The exposure to risk is an intrinsic feature of investment products. The good practices set out in Annex 1 refer to product governance arrangements and do not (and cannot) aim at removing investment risk from products. | |||
16/05/2014 | 2014/536 | ESMA Risk Dashboard No.2, 2014 | Risk Analysis & Economics - Markets Infrastructure Investors | Final Report | PDF 782.65 KB |
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31/07/2014 | 2014/944 | Potential Risks Associated with Investing in Contingent Convertible Instruments | Warnings and publications for investors, Innovation and Products | Statement | PDF 106.1 KB |
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) is issuing this statement to clarify to institutional investors risks from a newly emerging asset class referred to by most market participants as contingent convertibles instruments (CoCos). If they work as intended in a crisis CoCos will play an important role to inhibit risk transfer from debt holders to taxpayers. They along with standards to improve the quality and quantity of bank capital reflect a considerate response to the former regulatory capital framework. However, it is unclear as to whether investors fully consider the risks of CoCos and correctly factor those risks into their valuation. ESMA believes there are specific risks to CoCos and that investors should take those risks into consideration prior to investing in these instruments. |