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20/04/2022 ESMA80-187-945 Verena Ross' speech at ECMI/CEPS Webinar, 20 April 2022 Credit Rating Agencies, Trade Repositories, Transparency Speech PDF
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Verena Ross' speech at ECMI/CEPS Webinar, 20 April 2022: "ESMA – driving forward high-quality supervision and transparency in a single EU capital market"
19/06/2019 ESMA74-362-39 Keynote by ESMA Chair at ISLA Annual Securities Finances and Collateral Management Conference Market Integrity Speech PDF
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06/11/2020 ESMA71-99-1432 Opening Statement Verena Ross ECMI 6 November 2020 Credit Rating Agencies, Speeches Speech PDF
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18/03/2022 ESMA71-319-210 ESMA_Speech_Verena_Ross_EACT_Summit Corporate Finance, Credit Rating Agencies, Speeches, Sustainable finance Speech PDF
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15/10/2019 ESMA71-319-144 Speech by Steven Maijoor on Corporate Governance in Zagreb Corporate Disclosure, Speeches Speech PDF
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25/02/2021 ESMA70-155-11890 Statement CumEx CumCum scandal- Fabrizio Planta Market Abuse, Market Integrity, Speeches, Trading Speech PDF
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27/06/2018 ESMA70-145-924 Speech by ESMA Executive Director Verena Ross on LEI Market Integrity, MiFID - Secondary Markets Speech PDF
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02/12/2020 ESMA42-111-5461 Opening Statement ECON Public Presentation FTPR 2 Corporate Disclosure, Speeches, Supervisory convergence Speech PDF
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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
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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
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12/02/2020 ESMA32-67-642 Sustainable financial markets: translating changing risks and investor preferences into regulatory action- Speech by Steven Maijoor, European Financial Forum, Dublin Credit Rating Agencies, Speeches, Supervisory convergence Speech PDF
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28/11/2019 ESMA32-67-610 EFRAG Conference 28 November 2019- IFRS and Regulation- Keynote Speech Steven Maijoor Corporate Disclosure Speech PDF
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14/10/2021 ESMA24-436-15 Annex to the Opening Statement ECON Hearing 14 October 2021 Board of Supervisors, Brexit, CCP Directorate, Corporate Information, Credit Rating Agencies, Innovation and Products, Joint Committee, Speeches, Supervisory convergence, Sustainable finance Speech PDF
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14/10/2021 ESMA24-436-13 Opening Statement ECON Hearing 14 October 2021 Board of Supervisors, Brexit, CCP Directorate, Corporate Information, Credit Rating Agencies, Innovation and Products, Joint Committee, Speeches, Supervisory convergence, Sustainable finance Speech PDF
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19/10/2018 ESMA 32-67-510 Speech by ESMA Chair Maijoor at Banco de España – CEMFI – FSI High-Level Conference Corporate Disclosure Speech PDF
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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
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02/10/2015 2015/1472 Technical Advice on Competition, Choice and Conflicts of Interest in the CRA industry Credit Rating Agencies Technical Advice PDF
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02/10/2015 2015/1471 Technical Advice on Reducing Sole and Mechanistic Reliance on Credit Ratings Credit Rating Agencies Technical Advice PDF
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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.
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.

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