The ICMA Quarterly Report for the Third Quarter of 2020 focuses on the lessons from COVID-19 for capital markets. The Foreword by Jean-Marc Mercier of HSBC, Deputy Chair of ICMA, and the Message from ICMA’s Chief Executive, Martin Scheck, are both on this theme. Other...
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...
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...
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,...
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has updated its Questions and Answers (Q&As) regarding the implementation of the Central Securities Depository Regulation (CSDR). The updated Q&As provide answers to questions regarding practical issues on the implementation of the new CSDR regime. The latest CSDR Q&As...
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,...
