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Fund Management

ESMA identifies areas for further supervisory convergence on compliance and internal audit in the funds sector

11/05/2026

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s financial markets regulator

Fund Management

Simplification and Burden Reduction

ESMA consults on a new simplified approach to updating MMF stress test parameters

05/05/2026

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s financial markets regulator

Fund Management

Market data

Press Releases

Securities Financing Transactions

Simplification and Burden Reduction

ESMA advances the simplification of EU reporting frameworks for funds and transactions

04/05/2026

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU financial markets regul

Fund Management

Press Releases

Risk monitoring

New investment funds drive reduction in costs to investors

03/03/2026

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU financial markets regul

Guidelines and Technical standards

Market data

Trading

ESMA simplifies MiFID II/ MiFIR obligations on market data

23/02/2026

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s financial markets regulator

Guidelines and Technical standards

Joint Committee

ESAs publish joint Guidelines on ESG stress testing

08/01/2026

The European Supervisory Authorities (EBA, EIOPA and ESMA - the ESAs)&n

Fund Management

ESMA publishes report on cross-border marketing of funds including statistics on notifications

06/01/2026

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s financial markets regulator

Digital Finance and Innovation

Fund Management

Market Abuse

Prospectus

Sustainable finance

New Q&As available

19/12/2025

Fund Management

Investor protection

Risk monitoring

ESMA finds that distribution costs account for almost half of the total costs paid to invest in UCITS

06/11/2025

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s financial markets regulator and supervisor, has publis

Fund Management

Guidelines and Technical standards

ESMA publishes implementing rules on loan-originating AIFs

21/10/2025

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s financial markets regulator and sup