ESMA published on 18 November its first statistical report on European Union (EU) securities markets. The Report uses new regulatory data sources to give, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of European equity and bond markets in 2019, including the number, characteristics, volumes traded and transparency data...
Ahead of the European Commission’s MiFID2/R Review, the European Forum of Securities Associations (EFSA) has published a paper calling for certain areas of the regulation to be recalibrated in order to deliver its intended policy outcome of establishing a more transparent financial system that works...
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published last week a final report suggesting amendments to the trading obligation under MiFIR following the introduction of EMIR Refit. The recent changes introduced to EMIR via Refit modify the scope of counterparties subject to the clearing obligation...
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...
L’édition 2018 de l’Assemblée Générale annuelle de l’Association belge des Membres de la Bourse (ABMB) s’est déroulée le 5 juin à l’hôtel Le Châtelain à Bruxelles. Cette année, l’événement a été placé sous le signe de la finance durable. L’Assemblée Générale est généralement l’occasion de réunir...
On 23 May 2018, AFME’s Post Trade Division has published a new White Paper setting out a vision for a future post-trade system in Europe. The paper explores the issues currently impeding progress in European post trade reform and outlines some key objectives for public authorities...
The report—based on a survey of The World Federation of Exchanges (WFE) members and data from the McKinsey Panorama Fintech database —evaluates the fintech landscape within the capital market infrastructure (CMI) industry, potential uses of new technologies across the value chain, and areas likely to see...
