European Securities and Markets Authority (Esma)

125 results about this entity

Period: 17 Feb 2009 - 11 Oct 2023

Apply Cancel

Esma assesses market developments in DeFi and smart contracts

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s financial markets and securities regulator, today publishes two articles on decentralised finance (DeFi), one on developments and risks in the EU market and another on a methodology for the categorisation of smart contracts.

/markets

AFME welcomes Esma Call for Evidence on shortening settlement cycles

In response to a Call for Evidence on shortening settlement cycles in the EU, published by ESMA today, Pete Tomlison, Director of Post Trade at the Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME), said:

/regulation

Esma work programme to focus on digital change and the green transition

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s financial market regulator and supervisor, today publishes its work programme for 2024.

/crypto

Esma seeks feedback on crypto market rules

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s financial markets regulator and supervisor, has published its first consultation package under the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation and invites comments from stakeholders by 20 September 2023.

/sustainable

EU regulators present common understanding of greenwashing and warn on related risks

The European Supervisory Authorities (EBA, EIOPA and ESMA – ESAs) today published their progress Reports on greenwashing in the financial sector.

/regulation

Esma publihses opinion on market outages

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s financial markets regulator and supervisor, has today published its final report including an Opinion on market outages, highlighting the importance for trading venues of having an appropriate outage plan to communicate to their members, participants, and the public.

/regulation

Esma consults on post-trade transparency

This Consultation Paper focuses on the new Level 3 guidance that will be included in the manual which is meant to provide further clarifications on:

/crypto

Esma recommends use of DTI codes for digital asset regulatory reporting

ISO-standard DTI codes, issued by the DTI Foundation, have been recommended by ESMA for use under its Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) Pilot regulatory regime.

/regulation

Esma issues LEI positioning statement

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s securities markets regulator, issues a third statement on the implementation of Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) requirements for third-country issuers under the Securities Financing Transactions Regulation (SFTR) reporting regime.

EU reaches agreement on landmark MiCA regulation for crypto

/regulation

EU reaches agreement on landmark MiCA regulation for crypto

The Council Presidency and European Parliament have settled on the Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) proposal; ruling that crypto-asset service providers will require authorisation to operate in the EU, not including NFTs or media-related digital assets.

Regulators seek legal ground for revoking licences of firms who breach AML rules

/regulation

Regulators seek legal ground for revoking licences of firms who breach AML rules

European regulators are pushing for new laws that would give them the power to revoke licences for firms in serious breaches of anti-money laundering rules.

EU Digital Finance Platform launches

/regulation

EU Digital Finance Platform launches

The European Commission has launched the EU Digital Finance Platform, a website designed to build dialogue between fintech players and supervisors.

Regis-TR fined €186,000 by Esma for catalogue of reporting failures

/regulation

Regis-TR fined €186,000 by Esma for catalogue of reporting failures

The European Securities and Markets Authority (Esma) has fined trade repository Regis-TR €186,000 for eight breaches of the European Market Infrastructure Regulation.

/regulation

Esma takes on responsibility for supervising market data providers

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s securities markets regulator, on 1 January 2022 took on its new mandate as direct supervisor of the largest EU Data Reporting Service Providers (DRSPs).

/sustainable

Esma consults on new sustainability rules under MiFID II

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s securities markets regulator, is consulting on certain aspects of suitability requirements under the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II), in order to update its guidelines following amendments to MiFID II relating to sustainability.

Esma consults on rule changes to accommodate tokenized securities

/regulation

Esma consults on rule changes to accommodate tokenized securities

Europe's top securities regulator is seeking submissions on the need for amending the regulatory technical standards (RTS) on reporting and transparency requirements in order to accommodate growing use of blockchain technology in financial markets.

/regulation

Esma recommends delay to buy-in rules

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s securities markets regulator, has written to the European Commission (EC) regarding the implementation of the Central Securities Depositories Regulation (CSDR), urging it to consider a delay of the mandatory buy-in regime.

/regulation

Sustainable finance, crypto and blockchain on Esma agenda for 2022

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s securities markets regulator, has published its 2022 Annual Work Programme (AWP), setting out its priority work areas for the next 12 months to deliver on its mission to enhance investor protection and promote stable and orderly financial markets.

/regulation

Esma fines UnaVista €238,500 for trade reporting failures

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).

/regulation

Esma publishes report on use of fintech and DLT by depositories

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s securities markets regulator, has today published its Report on the use of FinTech by Central Securities Depositories (CSDs).

Welcome to Finextra. We use cookies to help us to deliver our services. You may change your preferences at our Cookie Centre.

Please read our Privacy Policy.

Accept