CONSULTATIONS

In the light of the proposal for amending Regulation (EC) No 1060/2009, ESMA has started the process of issuing and updating the guidelines on the application of the endorsement regime. The aim of this Call for evidence is to gather information from financial institutions and other interested…

This call for evidence seeks stakeholders' input on the provisional mandate from the European Commission regarding CESR's technical advice on the implementing measures on the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive. This input will help CESR and its successor, the European Securities and…

This consultation seeks stakeholders' views on a template developed by CESR for the Key Investor
Information document for UCITS. The template reflects the content of Commission Regulation (EU)
583/2010 implementing Directive 2009/65/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as…

The Simplified Prospectus (SP) failed as a consumer communication because the rules led to long documents. In addition, many are written in technical or legalistic language and are poorly structured and designed. The Key Investor Information document (KII) is a radical attempt to address these…

This paper considers some practical implications of Article 118(2) of the revised UCITS Directive, which allows UCITS management companies up to 30 June 2012 to implement Key Investor Information (KII) as referred to in Article 78.

This consultation paper sets out CESR's proposal for the possible organisation of transaction reporting on OTC derivatives as well as for the extension of the scope of transaction reporting obligations.

CESR's proposal on transaction reporting on OTC derivatives is based on the assumption…

Following the financial market turmoil which began in 2007, a number of regulatory initiatives have been launched to address the problems identified in Europe and the United States in relation to the derivatives traded over-the-counter (OTC).
In this regard, the Commission's communication…

In the context of its review of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID), the European Commission (EC) posed a series of questions to CESR. The purpose of this consultation is to gather stakeholders' views on client categorisation issues to assist CESR in its responses to the…

The purpose of this consultation document is to seek comments on the conclusions CESR has drawn for setting guidelines on common standards for assessing compliance of credit rating methodologies with the requirements set out in Article 8.3.

The consultation period closes on 18 June 2010.…

The purpose of this consultation document is to seek comments on the conclusions CESR has drawn for setting guidelines on enforcement practices applicable as part of ongoing supervision as well as on the interaction expected between CRAs and competent authorities.

The consultation period…

The Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) came into force on 1 November 2007. It introduced significant changes to the European regulatory framework for equity secondary markets, leaving open to Member States the possibility to extend transparency requirements to financial…