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ESMA presents methodology for climate risk stress testing and analysis of the financial impact of greenwashing controversies
January 26th, 2024
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s financial markets regulator and supervisor, today published two articles, one outlining an approach to modelling the impact of asset price shocks from adverse scenarios involving climate-related risks, the other exploring ...
ESMA finds data quality significantly improves under new monitoring approach
April 21st, 2023
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s financial markets regulator and supervisor, today published the third edition of its Data Quality Report under the European Markets Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) and the Securitised Financing Transactions Regulation (SFTR) reporting ...
ESMA fines trade repository €238,500 for EMIR data failures
September 29th, 2021
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s securities markets regulator, has fined trade repository UnaVista Limited €238,500 for eight breaches of the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR). The breaches relate to failures in ensuring the integrity of ...
ESMA imposed a fine for EMIR Data breaches
July 13th, 2021
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s securities markets regulator, has fined DTCC Derivatives Repository Plc (DDRL) a total of €408,000 for seven infringements of the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) regarding data confidentiality, data integrity, and ...
ESMA: Retail clients continue to lose out due to high investment products costs
April 15th, 2021
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU securities regulator, published its third annual statistical report on the cost and performance of European Union (EU) retail investment products. In the report ESMA finds that the costs of investing ...
ESMA recommends action by financial market participants for Covid-19 impact
March 16th, 2020
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), together with National Competent Authorities (NCAs), is closely monitoring the situation in view of the continuing impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on financial markets in the European Union (EU). Following a Board ...
ESMA ceases renewal of product intervention measures relating to CFDs
August 5th, 2019
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU securities markets’ regulator, has issued an announcement to inform that will not renew the temporary restriction on the marketing, distribution or sale of contracts for differences to retail clients in ...
ESMA ceases renewal of product intervention measure relating to Binary Options
July 4th, 2019
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU securities markets’ regulator, has issued an announcement to inform that will not renew the temporary prohibition of the marketing, distribution or sale of binary options to retail clients in the European ...
ESMA renews decision in relation to contracts for differences
May 3rd, 2019
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has issued an announcement to inform about its decision for restrictions in relation to Contracts For Differences (CFDs). In accordance ESMA’s announcement, on 17 April 2019, the ESMA adopted a Decision under ...
ESMA renews Binary Options prohibition
February 21st, 2019
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has agreed to renew the prohibition of the marketing, distribution or sale of binary options to retail clients, in effect since 2 July 2018, for a further three-month period. ESMA has carefully ...
