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...
Background As part of the capital markets union, the EU is taking steps to help small and medium businesses access new sources of funding. EU ambassadors today endorsed the Council's position on a proposal to give an easier access to SMEs trying to list and...
Interesting Keynote Address by Verena Ross at the 7th Annual Cross-Border Distribution Conference in Luxembourg, 12 February 2019. Main items: Investment funds and systemic risks Concerns about the risks posed by the so-called ‘liquidity mismatch’ FSB and ESRB 2 main areas of concern : leverage and liquidity EU Alternate...
Interesting speech by Steven Maijoor, Chair of the European Securities and Markets Authority, at the WFE Annual Meeting 2018 - Hotel Grande Bretagne, Athens, Greece, 3 October 2018 Topics covered: MIFID II and trading venues outside the EU Relocation and consistent regulatory and supervisory standards Improving...
The Chair of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), Steven Maijoor, has delivered a keynote speech on financial technology – New technologies within and beyond capital markets – at the AFME/Euromoney Global Innovation Institute conference in Paris (19 September 2018). The speech focused on technological...
The European Securities and Market Authority has published a document with links to national websites where the procedures for notification of net short positions are explained. To read the document, click here....
SIX, the firm that manages and owns the Swiss stock exchange, announced early July the launch of a new digital asset exchange platform called SIX Digital Exchange (SDX). It will offer services for issuing and trading digital assets in a regulated environment. Indeed, SDX will be...
On 26 June 2018, the International Capital Market Association (ICMA) has published a report on the potential market consequences of one of the provisions of the Central Securities Depository Regulation (CSDR), entitled: ‘How to survive in a mandatory buy-in world’. While CSDR deals mainly with the...
