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14/12/2020 | ESMA 33-9-383 | CRA Market Share Calculation 2020 | Credit Rating Agencies | Annual Report | PDF 511.26 KB |
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04/12/2018 | ESMA33-9-281 | CRA market share report | Credit Rating Agencies | Annual Report | PDF 827.25 KB |
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10/01/2019 | ESMA50-165-731 | ESMA annual statistical report on performance and costs of retail investment products in the EU | MiFID - Investor Protection, Risk Analysis & Economics - Markets Infrastructure Investors | Annual Report | PDF 3.43 MB |
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19/02/2019 | ESMA80-199-273 | ESMA supervision 2019 work plan and annual report 2018 | Credit Rating Agencies | Annual Report | PDF 622.46 KB |
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16/02/2015 | 2015/280 | ESMA supervision of Credit Rating Agencies and Trade Repositories | Corporate Information, Credit Rating Agencies, Post Trading | Annual Report | PDF 891.95 KB |
This document reports on the direct supervisory activities carried out by ESMA during 2014 regarding credit rating agencies (CRAs) and trade repositories (TRs) within the European Union (EU). It sets out ESMAs key areas of action during 2014 and outlines ESMA’s main priorities for 2015. | |||
09/03/2020 | ESMA80-199-332 | ESMA Supervision- Annual Report 2019 and Work Programme 2020 | Benchmarks, Credit Rating Agencies, Securities Financing Transactions, Securitisation, Trade Repositories | Annual Report | PDF 825.72 KB |
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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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08/02/2018 | ESMA80-199-153 | ESMA’s supervision of credit rating agencies, trade repositories and monitoring of third country central counterparties- 2017 Annual Report and 2018 Work Programme | Credit Rating Agencies | Annual Report | PDF 1.03 MB |
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01/03/2012 | 2012/137 | ESMA’s technical advice on possible delegated acts concerning the Prospectus Directive as amended by the Directive 2010/73/EU | Prospectus, Corporate Disclosure | Technical Advice | PDF 1.32 MB |
ESMA publishes today the second part of its final advice (ESMA/2012/137) on possible delegated acts for the Prospectus Directive (PD). The advice was submitted to the Commission on 29 February 2012. In its advice, ESMA proposes how to use a prospectus in a retail cascade and provides input on how to review the provisions of the Prospectus Regulation concerning tax information, indices, auditor’s report on profit forecasts and estimates and audited historical financial information. Today’s advice follows a public consultation started on 13 December 2011. Overall, the technical advice aims to achieve a high level of investor protection and to increase across Europe the legal clarity and efficiency of the prospectus regime. Investment prospectuses as such are aimed to provide investors with easily accessible information on financial products so as to foster in-formed decision-making. | |||
09/01/2013 | 2012/864 | ESMA’s technical advice on possible delegated acts concerning the Prospectus Directive as amended by the Directive 2010/73/EU | Prospectus, Corporate Disclosure | Technical Advice | PDF 1.23 MB |
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03/06/2013 | 2013-614 | ESMA’s technical advice on short selling regulation | Short Selling | Technical Advice | PDF 2.3 MB |
Final Report 2013/614 ESMA‘s technical advice on the evaluation of the Regulation (EU) 236/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council on short selling and certain aspects of credit default swaps | |||
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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04/10/2011 | 2011/323 | Final report- ESMA's technical advice on possible delegated acts concerning the Prospectus Directive as amended by the Directive 2010/73/EU | Prospectus, Corporate Disclosure | Technical Advice | PDF 797.56 KB |
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10/01/2019 | ESMA71-99-1081 | Press release- ESMA report finds investment product performance highly impacted by charges | MiFID - Investor Protection, Risk Analysis & Economics - Markets Infrastructure Investors | Annual Report | PDF 159.37 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 |