The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s securities markets regulator, has published three sets of technical advice to the European Commission (EC) regarding third-country central counterparties (TC-CCPs) under the revised European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR 2.2). 

ESMA’s advice details:

• how to specify the criteria to determine whether a TC-CCP is systemically important for the EU or a Member State’s financial stability (
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The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published today data for the systematic internaliser calculations for equity, equity-like instruments and bonds under the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) and Regulation (MiFIR).

As announced on 30 October 2019, ESMA has published the total number of trades and total volume over the period April-September 2019 for the purpose of the systematic internaliser (SI) calculations for 22,015...

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has started today to make available new data for bonds subject to the pre- and post-trade requirements of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) and Regulation (MiFIR) through its data register.

As announced on 30 October 2019, ESMA has started today to make available the latest...

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has updated today its public register with the latest set of double volume cap (DVC) data under the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II).

Today’s updates include DVC data and calculations for the period 1 October 2018 to 30 September 2019 as well as updates to already published DVC periods.

The number of new breaches is 62: 51 equities for the 8% cap, applicable to all trading venues, and 11 equities for the 4% cap, that...