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ESMA Unveils Measures to Curb Securities Lending to Retail Investors

  • The new rules aim to protect traders in the securities markets.
  • The guidelines prevent the use of clients' financial instruments without their consent.
Wednesday, 12/07/2023 | 19:33 GMT by Jared Kirui
CryptoCurrency

ESMA Seeks Crypto Industry Input on MiCA Regulatory Framework

  • ESMA invites stakeholders' comments on rules for crypto-asset service providers.
  • This consultation aims to understand EU crypto markets better.
Wednesday, 12/07/2023 | 09:21 GMT by Damian Chmiel
Retail FX

Retail Brokers, CySEC Wants to Pay You a Visit

  • The regulator will review the MiFID II compliance around marketing.
  • The site visits will be done in the second half of 2023.
Friday, 19/05/2023 | 08:10 GMT by Arnab Shome
Retail FX

ESMA Eyes Copy Trading, Stronger Investor Protection

  • Copy and social trading services became popular more than 15 years ago.
  • They are now offered by one in three FX/CFD brokers.
Thursday, 30/03/2023 | 10:55 GMT by Damian Chmiel
Institutional FX

European Regulator Slammed 225 Securities Issuers in 2022

  • Issuers' biggest failing relates to accounting for financial instruments, ESMA says.
  • The regulator examined 640 IFRS-compliant financial statements in 2022.
Wednesday, 29/03/2023 | 14:04 GMT by Solomon Oladipupo
Retail FX

ESMA Criticizes Fractional Shares, Says They Mislead Investors

  • ESMA warns about fractional shares misrepresentation.
  • The supervisor urges firms to implement additional measures for investor protection.
Tuesday, 28/03/2023 | 11:32 GMT by Damian Chmiel
Retail FX

ESMA Sees High Market Risks and Warns of Further Declines

  • ESMA just presented its newest TRV Report for 2023.
  • The institution warns retailers of further possible market declines.
Thursday, 09/02/2023 | 12:32 GMT by Damian Chmiel
Institutional FX

Europe’s Money Market Fund Assets Stood at €1.44tn in 2021, Says ESMA

  • Low volatility NAV accounted for almost half (46%) of the assets.
  • Over 90% of money market fund investors are professional investors.
Wednesday, 08/02/2023 | 16:16 GMT by Solomon Oladipupo
Institutional FX

ESMA Proposes Changes to Money Market Funds Stress Test Scenarios

  • The events of March 2020 have shown that the current methodology needs fine-tuning.
  • ESMA waits for industry participants' comments until 28 April 2023.
Tuesday, 31/01/2023 | 10:46 GMT by Damian Chmiel
Retail FX

ESMA Eyes Marketing of Financial Products in EU, Focuses on Risky Instruments

  • NCAs will check the quality of promotional campaigns within the financial industry.
  • Emphasis may be on CFDs and cryptocurrencies.
Monday, 16/01/2023 | 10:02 GMT by Damian Chmiel
FinTech

ESMA Unveils New Logo, Plans New Website Launch

  • The EU financial regulator has started adopting the new logo.
  • ESMA said its new website will be launched later this month.
Tuesday, 03/01/2023 | 13:08 GMT by Solomon Oladipupo
Executive Moves

CySEC's Dr Theocharides Becomes Chair of ESMA's Risk Standing Committee

  • The RSC is the successor of the Committee for Economic and Markets Analysis.
  • ESMA named the Chair of several other standing committees as well.
Wednesday, 21/12/2022 | 08:44 GMT by Arnab Shome
Regulation

ESMA Releases Final Report on Guidelines for Reporting under EMIR REFIT

  • The EU regulator published the draft technical standards three days ago.
  • EMIR first came into force on August 16, 2012.
Tuesday, 20/12/2022 | 17:04 GMT by Solomon Oladipupo
Retail FX

ESMA Seeks Public Feedback on New License Passporting Rules

  • It wants to receive information on investment firms’ strategies with license passporting.
  • It will close the consultation process on 17 February 2023.
Thursday, 17/11/2022 | 12:49 GMT by Arnab Shome
Executives

ESMA Appoints Czech's Vojtěch Belling to Replace Erik Thedéen as VC

  • Erik Thedéen was appointed as the Vice Chair in December 2021.
  • Vojtěch Belling has been a member of ESMA's Board of Supervisors since December 2020.
Tuesday, 15/11/2022 | 20:29 GMT by Solomon Oladipupo
Institutional FX

ESMA to Issue Guidance on Market Outage, Asks for Stakeholders’ Input

  • The guidance is to be published during the first quarter of 2023.
  • Stakeholders' input will be accepted until December 16th.
Monday, 26/09/2022 | 16:51 GMT by Solomon Oladipupo
FinTech

European Authorities Decry ‘Rapid Deterioration of Economic Outlook'

  • The authorities include the EBA, EIOPA and ESMA.
  • They urged financial institutions to prepare for challenges ahead.
Monday, 12/09/2022 | 14:37 GMT by Solomon Oladipupo
Regulation

Will Curbs on the Gamification of Trading End Retail Demand?

  • Several regulators are now critical of platforms gamifying trading practices.
  • Inexperienced traders believe that these platforms democratized trading.
Tuesday, 17/05/2022 | 06:58 GMT by Arnab Shome
Regulation

ESMA Wants Curbs on ‘Gamification’ of Trading, Payments-for-Order-Flow

  • The regulator wants to improve investor protection within its jurisdiction.
  • It also extended its support to curb the controversial PFOF model.
Friday, 29/04/2022 | 10:51 GMT by Arnab Shome
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Cross-Border Client Onboarding: Why Harmonising & Automating Is The Ideal Solution

  • Regulators in Europe are quarrelling over cross-border client onboarding issues
  • Cross-border client onboarding issues are being taken more seriously
Thursday, 21/04/2022 | 20:24 GMT by Remonda Kirketerp-Møller
Execution

ESMA Extends Recognition of 3 UK CCPs until June 2025

  • Initially, the temporary recognition was granted for 18 months.
  • The temporary recognition came as a response to Brexit.
Friday, 25/03/2022 | 10:33 GMT by Arnab Shome
Institutional FX

ESMA Fines Trade Repository REGIS-TR €186K for EMIR Violations

  • There were a total of eight EMIR breaches by the trade repository.
  • Fines were slapped only for negligent infringements.
Thursday, 24/03/2022 | 12:55 GMT by Arnab Shome
Executive Moves

ESMA Names Dr. Theocharides as Chairman of the Economic and Markets Analysis Committee

  • Dr Theocharides is the Chairperson of CySEC.
  • He will retain the post as Committee Chairman until 1st December 2022.
Thursday, 24/03/2022 | 10:41 GMT by Tom Hazan
News

EU Regulators Warn against ‘Highly Risky and Speculative’ Crypto Assets

  • There are more than 17,000 crypto-assets in the market now.
  • They cautioned against price volatility, misleading information, fraud, manipulation and other things.
Thursday, 17/03/2022 | 12:22 GMT by Arnab Shome
Retail FX

CySEC Comments on Recent Peer Review Made by ESMA

  • CySEC welcomes the peer review of NCA's supervision of cross-border activities.
  • ESMA made two recommendations to CySEC under Article 16.
Friday, 11/03/2022 | 21:17 GMT by Felipe Erazo
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