ESMA appoints new Chairs of Standing Committees
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s financial markets regulator and supervisor, has changed the structure of its standing committees and elected new Chairs. The election took place at the Board of Supervisors meeting in Paris on 14 December.
The new list of standing committees and their respective Chairs is the following:
|
Standing Committee |
Chair |
|
Data Standing Committee (DSC) |
Armi Taipale, Head of Deparment, Finanssivalvonta (FIN-FSA), Finland |
|
Digital Finance Standing Committee (DFSC) |
Carlo Comporti, Commissioner, Commissione Nazionale per le Società e la Borsa (CONSOB), Italy |
|
Investment Management Standing Committee (IMSC) |
Derville Rowland, Deputy Governor, Central Bank of Ireland, Ireland |
|
Investor Protection Standing Committee (IPSC) |
Marie-Anne Barbat-Layani, Chair, Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF), France |
|
Issuers Standing Committee (ISC) |
Karen Dortea Abelskov, Deputy Director General, Finanstilsynet, Denmark |
|
Markets Standing Committee (MSC) |
Rodrigo Buenaventura, Chair, Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores (CNMV), Spain |
|
Proportionality and Coordination Committee (PCC) |
Christopher Buttigieg, Chief Officer, Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA), Malta |
|
Risk Standing Committee (RSC) |
George Theocharides, Chairman, Επιτροπή Κεφαλαιαγοράς Κύπρου (CySEC), Cyprus |
|
Senior Supervisors’ Forum (SSF) |
Jos Heuvelman, Member of the Executive Board, Autoriteit Financiële Markten (AFM), The Netherlands |
|
Sustainability Standing Committee (SSC) |
Thorsten Pötzsch, Chief Executive Director, Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht (BaFin), Germany |
The standing committees are expert groups drawn from ESMA staff and the national competent authorities for securities markets regulation in the Member States and are responsible for the development of policy in their respective areas.
Next steps
The new Standing Committees will be formally established on 1 January 2023, at which point the mandate for the respective Chairs will start.
Further information:
Dan Nacu-Manole
Communications Officer
✆ +33 (0)1 58 36 52 06