The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has issued today an opinion supporting a revised Accepted Market Practice on liquidity contracts notified by the Spanish market regulator, the Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores (CNMV).

ESMA considers that the revised CNMV’s AMP is compatible with Article 13(2) of the Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) and with the CDR 2016/908 and contains various mechanisms to limit the threat to market confidence with respect to liquidity contracts and therefore maintains its...

The European Union's (EU) banking, insurance, pensions and securities sectors continue to face a range of risks, the latest report on "Risks and Vulnerabilities in the EU Financial System" published today by the Joint Committee of the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) shows.

The 2019 Autumn ESAs' report highlights the following risks as potential sources of instability:

• Uncertainties around the terms of the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union
• Persistently low interest rates, which combined with flattening yield curves, put
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