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ESMA registers first two repositories under the Securitisation Regulation
28 June 2021 France
Reporter: Bob Currie

The European DataWarehouse, located in Germany, and Netherlands-based SecRep become the first two SRs to be licensed under this regulation

ESMA releases 2020 Annual Report
16 June 2021 France
Reporter: Bob Currie

EU securities market regulator reflects on its work during 2020 and actions relating to supervisory convergence, Single Rulebook and oversight of financial infrastructure

ESMA publishes new stress test framework for CCPs
10 June 2021 France
Reporter: Bob Currie

The 2021 Stress Test, which is the fourth iteration of its evaluation framework, draws on experience gained from previous evaluation exercises

Brain trust: Kaizen launches board of experts to boost quality of regulatory reporting data
08 June 2021 UK
Reporter: Alex Pugh

The UK-based financial consultancy’s new advisory board is made up of regulation, technology, law and financial services heavyweights, who between them have decades of experience in all aspects of the regulatory landscape

ESMA releases final report on market data obligations under MiFID II and MiFIR
01 June 2021 France
Reporter: Bob Currie

This final report builds on a consultation process that ESMA, the EU securities market regulator, ran from 6 November 2020 until 11 January 2021

ESMA responds to European Commission’s Review of CSDR
28 May 2021 France
Reporter: Bob Currie

EU securities market regulator calls for reform of T2S supervision framework

ESMA appoints new director
20 May 2021 France
Reporter: Alex Pugh

Natasha Cazenave has a background in corporate finance and consultancy and is only ESMA’s second executive director

ESMA opens annual consultation on MiFID II
12 May 2021 France
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

The paper provides for the annual assessment of the operation of the thresholds for the liquidity determination of bonds and the trade percentiles determining the pre-trade SSTI-threshold

ESMA unveils draft RTS on changes to CCPs’ activities and models
08 April 2021 France
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

ESMA has published its final report containing draft regulatory technical standards relating to changes to CCP services and activities as well as models and parameters under EMIR

EACH urges EC to agree with ESMA on a further delay to CSDR's SDR
01 April 2021 Belgium
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

EACH says a number of the provisions are simply not implementable because of their technical inaccuracy and some would also increase operational risk within the EU CSDR SDR

ESMA updates Q&As for AIFMD and UCITS
30 March 2021 France
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

For AIFMD and UCITS, ESMA has added two new Q&As on the guidelines on performance fees in UCITS and certain types of AIFs

ESMA launches MMF consultation to review 2020 market stress
26 March 2021 France
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Following the COVID-19 market stress experienced by money markets in March 2020, the EU regulator is considering four wide-ranging proposals for rule changes to shore-up liquidity buffers and transparency