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29/06/2012 | 2012/415 | Call for Evidence on Empty Voting | Transparency, Corporate Disclosure | CESR Document | PDF 275.66 KB |
ESMA launched a Call for Evidence on Empty Voting in September 2011 to analyse the potential issues and concerns raised by the practice of empty voting and to examine whether there was a possible need for further action. An analysis of the responses received to the consultation has led ESMA to conclude that there is insufficient evidence to justify any regulatory action at the European level at present. | |||
30/05/2017 | ESMA70-145-103 | Communication on launch of reference data submission under MAR | Market Abuse, Market Integrity | Opinion | PDF 132.12 KB |
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04/12/2019 | ESMA70-21038340-46 | Compliance table for the Guidelines on market making activities under the Short Selling Regulation | Guidelines and Technical standards, Market Integrity, Short Selling | Compliance table | PDF 267.48 KB |
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01/07/2021 | ESMA31-62-1409 | Compliance table GLs on Risk factors | Prospectus | Compliance table | PDF 131.48 KB |
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08/03/2021 | ESMA70-151-2536 | compliance table Guidelines APC Measures | Guidelines and Technical standards, Trade Repositories | Compliance table | PDF 141.15 KB |
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08/07/2021 | ESMA32-382-1157 | Compliance table on disclosure requirements under the Prospectus Regulation | Prospectus | Compliance table | PDF 124.29 KB |
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04/02/2022 | ESMA32-67-802 | Compliance table on the Guidelines on the enforcement of financial information | Guidelines and Technical standards, Transparency | Compliance table | PDF 135.55 KB |
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01/08/2022 | ESMA35-43-3339 | Compliance table on the Recommendations to the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission on the supervision of cross-border activities of investment firms | Guidelines and Technical standards, Supervisory convergence | Compliance table | PDF 174.28 KB |
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13/05/2022 | ESMA34-45-1128 | Compliance table- Guidelines on performance fees in UCITS and certain types of AIFs | Fund Management, Guidelines and Technical standards, Supervisory convergence | Compliance table | PDF 225.5 KB |
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04/02/2019 | ESMA70-145-153 | Compliance table- MAR Guidelines on information relating to commodity derivatives markets or related spot markets for the purpose of the definition of inside information on commodity derivatives | Guidelines and Technical standards, Market Abuse, Market Integrity | Compliance table | PDF 179.29 KB |
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29/09/2014 | 2014/1187 | Draft Regulatory Technical Standards on major shareholdings and an indicative list of financial instruments subject to notification requirements under the revised Transparency Directive | Corporate Disclosure, Transparency | Technical Standards | PDF 810.07 KB |
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published its draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) under the revised Transparency Directive relating to the notification of major shareholdings. | |||
20/12/2013 | 2013/1970 | Draft Regulatory Technical Standards on specific situations that require the publication of a supplement to the prospectus | Prospectus, Corporate Disclosure | Technical Standards | PDF 713.74 KB |
The Final Report contains the draft Regulatory Technical Standard (RTS) on situations which require the publication of a supplement to the prospectus which ESMA is required to submit to the European Commission by 1 January 2014 in accordance with Article 16(3) of the Prospectus Directive. The Report furthermore includes a summary of the main responses received to ESMA’s Consultation Paper which was published in March 2013. The draft RTS sets out nine situations which are always considered to be significant in the context of securities issuance and where a supplement to the prospectus will always be required. Other situations would require a case-by-case assessment. | |||
24/06/2014 | 2014/685 | Draft Regulatory Technical Standards under the CRA3 Regulation | Credit Rating Agencies | Technical Standards | PDF 2.39 MB |
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published its Final Report on draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) required under the Credit Rating Agencies (CRA3) Regulation regarding information on transparency of structured finance instruments, the European Rating Platform and periodic reporting of fees charged by credit rating agencies. The draft RTS, which complement the existing regulatory framework for credit rating agencies (CRAs), cover: • disclosure requirements on structured finance instruments (SFIs); • the European Rating Platform (ERP); and • the periodic reporting on fees charged by CRAs. | |||
11/01/2016 | 2016/28 | Emergency measure by the Greek HCMC under Section 1 of Chapter V of Regulation (EU) No 236/2012 on short selling and certain aspects of credit default swaps | Market Integrity, Short Selling | Opinion | PDF 38.78 KB |
Emergency measure by the Greek HCMC under Section 1 of Chapter V of Regulation (EU) No 236/2012 on short selling and certain aspects of credit default swaps
I.Legal basis
II.Previous measures adopted by the Hellenic Capital Market Commission (HCMC)
III.Present measure
IV.Opinion
On the adverse events or developments ESMA considers that adverse developments which constitute a serious threat to market confidence in Greece could be understood as having considerably decreased with the successful completion of the share capital increase of Attica bank as announced by that bank on the 30th December 2015. Attica Bank has been the last of the five banks to undertake the re-capitalisation process envisaged under Greek law. It represented less than 1 % of the total market capitalisation of the 5 re-capitalised banks before the Attica capital increase and less than 7% after the increase. It also stands for a very small fraction of the Greek banking sector. Not surprisingly, and unlike the other banks mentioned in paragraph 10 above, Attica Bank is not a significant supervised entity under the direct supervision of the ECB. Although acknowledging that the successful and full conclusion of all the Greek banks’ re-capitalisation is important in order to safeguard the stability of the financial system as a whole and of the Greek capital market, as well as the protection of investors, ESMA considers that given that the capital increase of Attica Bank is agreed, priced, subscribed and publicly announced on the 30th of December 2015, the threat to the financial stability of the bank, and more widely to the financial stability of the Greek financial market, is much less acute than in December 2015. ESMA notes that the trading of the newly issued shares further to the completed capital increase has not started yet and thus there is a risk of increased volatility in the relevant market and that the confidence in the concerned bank could be affected if price movements were extreme. However, the evolution of the stock price of Attica Bank during the last month does not point towards, on average, a significant downward pressure on the prices. The volatility observed on Attica Bank is relative to the currently volatile stock markets in the EU. In the trading figures of Attica Bank shares since late November 2015, it is evident that the trading volumes have reduced progressively but the price of the stock has not suffered from a downward price spiral. Only in one occasion (10 December2015) the stock price fell more than 10% in a single session. In general, looking at the last 30 trading sessions, the price has increased by 37%. In the last 10 trading sessions, the price has moved in an overall range (counting intraday minimum and maximum values) of 13% around the average closing price of the period. In terms of closing prices, the maximum fluctuation has been -3,97% since 22 December (observed on January 7 2016). Putting these moves in the context of quite volatile EU stock markets, linked to the international market trends, it is questionable whether the volatility of the stock price of Attica Bank could be qualified as extreme or even high. Obviously, one could argue that the price has found a support thanks, among other things, to the existing ban on short sales. While it is extremely difficult to isolate the price effect of the short selling ban with current data, it is ESMA’s view that, all in all, the pricing history of the stock does not give the impression of a highly fragile situation. The main risk related with extreme volatility in a re-capitalisation exercise arises when the issuance price of the new shares and the allotment of the volume to be subscribed is not yet complete. In that scenario, significant (downward) price movements can dis-incentivise the investors that were considering to subscribe to new shares or can affect the issuance price in a manner that the re-capitalisation (in terms of the effective amount of funds to be received by the bank) can be put at risk. Once the pricing and the subscription are firm, price moves have a much lower impact on the success prospects of a re-capitalisation. They mainly affect the willingness of the new investors to hold their new shares or to sell them when the new shares start to trade. But the effects of this process on the financial stability of the entity are much less direct than when the volatility scenario precedes the establishment of the price and of the allotment of the capital increase. The latter was the prevalent scenario in most of the other occasions in which the measures of the HCMC was extended and on which ESMA issued positive opinions in the past. In ESMA’s opinion, such scenarios should be distinguished from the case at hand. The question of whether the risk of falling prices on Attica Bank shares (which has not yet been observed) would endanger the orderly functioning of the whole Greek financial market and its integrity is not evident to ESMA, due to the small size of this particular institution and to the fact that the only pending element is the formal admission to trading of the new shares. On the appropriateness and proportionality of the proposed measure ESMA considers that the renewal of the emergency measure limited to the shares of Attica Bank is not appropriate and proportionate to address the above mentioned potential threat stemming from the volatility of the price of the market of Attica Bank shares. Given that the share capital increase of Attica Bank is firm and definitive as well as publicly known, ESMA considers that the prohibition of short sales in the shares of Attica Bank admitted to trading on the Athens Exchange will only serve the purpose of assisting in reducing market volatility until the final admission of the new shares and the first days of their trading. While this may be a positive goal, ESMA notes that the situation of Attica Bank is very different from the ones of the other Greek banks both in terms of quantitative significance with respect to financial stability (much smaller in the case of Attica Bank) and in terms of the timing in the process of re-capitalisation (given that only the final listing of the new shares is pending, as opposed to the fixing of the issuance price and the allotment of the subscriptions). ESMA is thus of the view that there are alternative tools and measures, including those provided by Article 23 of the Short Selling Regulation consisting in a short term restriction of short selling in case of a significant fall in price, to address extreme market volatility concerns, should this volatility materialise in the coming days and more specifically risks of a downward spiral of the price of Attica shares. Those measures would be in ESMA’s opinion more appropriate and proportionate to address the risks that would arise from that situation than a total ban on short sales. On the duration of the proposed measure Considering the above negative opinion on the appropriateness and proportionality of the measure, ESMA is not further assessing the duration of the proposed renewal.
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30/04/2013 | 2013/542 | Emergency measure by the Greek HCMC under Section 1 of Chapter V of Regulation No 236/2012 on short selling and certain aspects of credit default swaps | Short Selling, Market Integrity | Opinion | PDF 96.41 KB |
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26/03/2021 | JC 2021 16 | ESAs’ Opinion to the European Commission on the Jurisdictional Scope of Application of the SECR | Joint Committee, Securitisation | Opinion | PDF 339.91 KB |
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25/09/2015 | 2015/1460 | ESMA Final Report on DRAFT RTS on EEAP | Transparency | Technical Standards | PDF 1.62 MB |
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19/09/2019 | ESMA70-155-8524 | ESMA Opinion CNMV revised Accepted Market Practice | Market Abuse, Market Integrity | Opinion | PDF 520.92 KB |
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13/04/2018 | ESMA70-145-442 | ESMA Opinion on AMF Accepted Market Practice on liquidity contracts | Market Abuse, Market Integrity | Opinion | PDF 542.91 KB |
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12/09/2017 | ESMA70-146-15 | ESMA opinion on CNMV short selling ban on Liberbank | Market Integrity | Opinion | PDF 181.56 KB |