ESMA has published a consultation paper on guidelines on outsourcing to cloud service providers Read more The guidelines’ purpose is to provide guidance on the outsourcing requirements applicable to financial market participants when they outsource to cloud service providers. In particular, they aim to help firms...
On 8 June 2020, the European Central Securities Depositories Association (ECSDA) writes to request a postponement in the implementation of Settlement Discipline Regime (SDR), and Settlement penalties in particular, possibly by one year beyond the date of 1 February 2021. They acknowledge that the European Commission...
Introductory remarks by Sabine Lautenschläger, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB, at the third meeting of the Euro Cyber Resilience Board for pan-European Financial Infrastructures, Frankfurt am Main, 28 June 2019. It is a pleasure to welcome you back to Frankfurt. As you may...
ESMA has issued a statement on the misalignment between the scope of counterparties subject to the clearing obligation (CO) under the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) and those subject to the derivatives trading obligation (DTO) under MiFIR. Since the entry into force of the Regulation...
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has issued today an update of its Q&A on practical questions regarding the European Markets Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR). Following the entry into force of the EMIR review (so-called EMIR Refit), ESMA is reviewing the existing Q&As to align them,...
On 11 July, FCB published a survey of industry practices regarding cyber incident response and recovery. The survey is a key element of the FSB’s outreach strategy with external stakeholders to gather views on effective practices relating to financial institutions’ response to, and recovery from,...
Editie 2019 van de jaarlijkse Algemene Vergadering van de Belgische Vereniging van Beursleden (BVBL) vond plaats op 28 mei in het Brusselse hotel Le Châtelain. Dit jaar stond het evenement in het teken van cybersecurity. De Algemene Vergadering is gewoonlijk de ideale gelegenheid om de leden...
On Tuesday 18 June 2019, the Commission published new guidelines on non-financial information climate-related reporting as part of its Sustainable Finance Action Plan. The new guidelines will provide companies with practical recommendations on how to better report the impact their activities have on the climate...
In her introductory remarks at the third meeting of the Euro Cyber Resilience Board of pan-European Financial Infrastructures, Sabine Lautenschläger, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB talked about her taking over the chairmanship from Benoît Cœuré and the changes in the cybercrime space since the...
Context: The content of this supervisory briefing is not subject to any ‘comply or explain’ mechanism for National Competent Authorities (NCAs) and is non-binding. The main purpose is to contribute to a common supervisory culture by promoting common supervisory approaches and practices. The comments and questions in...
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