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| 22/12/2020 | ESMA35-43-349 | Q&As on MiFID II and MiFIR investor protection topics | MiFID - Investor Protection, Supervisory convergence | Q&A | PDF 651.6 KB |
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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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| 08/07/2020 | ESMA70-1861941480-56 | Q&A on MiFIR data reporting | MiFID - Secondary Markets, Supervisory convergence | Q&A | PDF 1.03 MB |
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| 17/04/2020 | ESMA32-51-370 | Q&A on ESMA Guidelines on Alternative Performance Measures | Corporate Disclosure, Corporate Information | Q&A | PDF 329.01 KB |
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| 01/04/2020 | ESMA70-156-2287 | Technical Advice to the European Commission on weekly position reports under MiFID II | MiFID - Secondary Markets, Supervisory convergence | Technical Advice | PDF 231.84 KB |
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| 17/02/2020 | ESMA70-708036281-2 | Questions and Answers on CSDR | Post Trading, Supervisory convergence | Q&A | PDF 575.59 KB |
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| 17/02/2020 | ESMA33-5-87 | Q&A on the Implementation of the Regulation (EU) No 462 2013 On CRA | Credit Rating Agencies | Q&A | PDF 401.67 KB |
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| 11/12/2019 | ESMA70-145-114 | Q&A on the Benchmarks Regulation (BMR) | Benchmarks, Supervisory convergence | Q&A | PDF 500.44 KB |
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| 04/12/2019 | ESMA34-32-352 | Q&A on the Application of the AIFMD | Fund Management, Supervisory convergence | Q&A | PDF 500.53 KB |
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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 |
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| 11/04/2019 | 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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| 11/04/2019 | ESMA31-62-780 | Q&A on Prospectus Related Topics | Brexit, Corporate Disclosure, Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance, Corporate Information, Prospectus, Supervisory convergence | Q&A | PDF 957.9 KB |
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| 29/03/2019 | ESMA70-145-111 | Q&A on the Market Abuse Regulation | Market Abuse, Market Integrity | Q&A | PDF 400.21 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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| 01/04/2016 | 2016/419 | Q&A Market Abuse Directive | Market Abuse | Q&A | PDF 175.08 KB |
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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 2.48 MB |
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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 1.1 MB |
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| 28/09/2015 | 2015-ESMA-1455 | Final Report MAR TS | Market Abuse | Technical Standards | PDF 1.77 MB |
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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. | |||
| 17/09/2014 | 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. | |||
| 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. |