REGISTERS AND DATA

ESMA fulfils its mission to enhance investor protection and promote stable and orderly financial markets by facilitating access to relevant registers and statistical data for market participants, regulators and the general public.

This section provides references to the registers and financial market data that ESMA compiled on the basis of notifications and data provided by the relevant national competent authorities (NCAs) and information collected through ESMA’s supervisory activities.

A dedicated ESMA Registers portalis also available, and provides tailored search tools.

Database/Register	Description
Corporate finance (Prospectus Directive)
Means of communication of final terms	Means (emails, postal addresses) by which an issuer communicates final terms to the NCAs
Prospectus and supplements	List of prospectuses and supplements filed with and approved by the NCAs
Corporate reporting (Transparency Directive)
Access to regulated information	Hyperlinks to national databases containing regulated information disclosed by issuers having shares admitted for trading on regulated markets
Supervision (Credit rating agencies (CRA) Regulation and EMIR)
Registered and certified credit rating agencies	List of registered and certified CRAs
Central repository (CEREP) statistics	Statistics on the rating activity and the rating performance (including default rates and transition matrices) of all registered or certified CRAs
Registered trade repositories (TR)	List of registered TRs
European Rating Platform (ERP)	Individual credit ratings and rating outlooks of all registered and certified CRAs plus rating history details from 1 July 2015 onwards, press releases accompanying rating issuances and research reports for sovereign ratings.
Investment management (AIFMD, UCITS Directive, EuVECA and EuSEF Regulation)
Investment Fund Managers	Register of authorised Alternative Investment Fund Managers (AIFMs)
Categories of covered bonds and issuers of covered bonds	Categories of bonds referred to Article 52(4) of UCITS Directive, together with categories of issuers of those instruments
Undertakings for collective investment in transferable securities (UCITS) management companies	Register of UCITS management companies authorised by the NCAs
European Venture Capital Fund Managers (EuVECA)	Database listing all managers of qualifying venture capital funds with the qualifying venture capital funds that they market
European Social Entrepreneurship Fund Managers (EuSEF)	Databases of all managers of qualifying social entrepreneurship funds with the qualifying social entrepreneurship funds that they market
Financial Instruments (MiFID, MiFID implementing Regulation, OMNIBUS Directive)
Ancillary Activity Calculations	Estimates of Market Sizes of Commodity Derivative Asset Classes
Central counterparties	List of Central Counterparties (CCPs)
MiFID investment firms	List of investment firms authorised by the NCAs including information on their authorised services and activities and on published sanctions relating to these firms that may have been imposed by the NCAs
Multilateral trading facilities	List of multilateral trading facilities (MTFs)
NCAs under art.48(1-2) MiFID	List of NCAs responsible for the enforcement of the duties provided for by MiFID I
NCAs under art.56(1) MiFID	List of NCAs - single contact points for purposes of MiFID I
Regulated markets	List of Regulated Markets
Shares admitted to trading on EU regulated markets	Database of all shares admitted to trading on a regulated market in Europe
Suspensions and Removals of instruments from trading (art. 41 MiFID)
Systematic internalisers	List of all systematic internalisers in respect of shares admitted to trading on a regulated market
Tied Agents	List of references or hyperlinks to the public registers of tied agents
Short Selling (Regulation on short selling and certain aspects of credit default swaps)
Administrative measures and sanctions applicable in Member States to infringements of the Short Selling Regulation (SSR)	List of existing penalties and administrative measures applicable to infringements of the SSR in the Member States
List of exempted shares (having their principle trading venue located in a third country)
Market makers and authorised primary dealers who are using the exemption under the SSR PDF \| Excel	List of market makers and authorised primary dealers who are using the exemption under the SSR
National websites explaining the procedures for notifications of net short positions	List of hyperlinks to the websites containing the information about the national notifying procedures and the templates to use
National websites where net short positions in shares are disclosed	List of hyperlinks to the websites operated or supervised by the NCAs publishing net short position in shares
Net short position notification thresholds for sovereign issuers	List of the thresholds applicable to the sovereign issuers for the purpose of the notification to the NCAs of significant net short position in sovereign debt
Post-trading (EMIR, Settlement Finality Directive, CSDR)
European Central Counterparties (CCPs) authorised to offer services and activities in the Union	List of CCPs authorised in the EU
List of third-country CCPs recognised to offer services and activities in the Union	List of third-country CCPs recognised in the EU
Competent authorities responsible for the authorisation and supervision of central counterparties	List of the NCAs responsible for the authorisation and supervision of CCPs
Competent authorities responsible for non-financial counterparties	List of the NCAs responsible for ensuring that non-financial counterparties above the clearing threshold comply with the EMIR obligations
Public Register for the Clearing Obligation under EMIR	Register listing classes of OTC derivatives that CCPs are authorised to clear
Competent Authorities Responsible for the Authorisation and Supervision of Central Securities Depositories (CSDs)	List of the NCAs responsible for the authorisation and supervision of CSDs
Key relevant provisions of the corporate or similar law of a Member State, under which securities are constituted	Compilation of key relevant provisions of national corporate or similar law, under which securities are constituted
Designated authority to notify opening of insolvency proceedings	List of the NCAs chosen for receiving immediate notification from the relevant judicial or administrative authority when insolvency proceedings are opened
Designated payment and securities settlement systems	List of designated payment and securities settlement systems
List of Exempted Pension Schemes	List of pension scheme arrangements exempted from the clearing obligation
List of third-country markets considered as equivalent to a regulated market in the Union under EMIR	List of third country markets declared as equivalent for the purposes of the definition of OTC derivatives under EMIR
Other
Sanctions	Compilation of sanctions applied and published in Member States under MAD, MiFID, UCITS
Enforcement actions	Overview of enforcement actions for Credit Rating Agencies and Trade Repositories