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ICMA calls for central database to improve bond market transparency
29 April 2020 London
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

ICMA’s Consolidated Tape Taskforce suggested that the whole market would benefit from a single reliable source of post-trade data

EuropeanIssuers shares industry concerns with ESMA
28 April 2020 Brussels
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

EuropeanIssuers has sent a letter to ESMA to ensure issuers’ concerns are heard in these “trying times”, amid COVID-19 challenges

CSDR: ICMA vows to continue push for buy-in amendments, despite ESMA brush off
21 April 2020 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The association says is it not put off by Steven Maijoor's hardball stance and will not give up lobbying for radical changes to CSDR's settlement discipline regime

Central Bank of Ireland offers flexibility around regulations amid COVID-19
21 April 2021 Dublin
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

The Central Bank of Ireland is allowing flexibility for the remittance dates of a number of regulatory returns due from investment firms, fund service providers and investment funds over the COVID-19 period

ESMA issues guidance on performance fees in UCITS
06 April 2020 Brussels
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

ESMA highlighted that the guidelines aim to harmonise the way fund managers charge performance fees to retail investors, as well as the circumstances in which performance fees can be paid

ESMA provides COVID-19 clarification for best execution reports under MiFID II
31 March 2020 Brussels
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

ESMA has urged NCAs not to prioritise supervisory action against execution venues and firms in respect of the deadlines of the general best execution reports under MiFID II in light of the COVID-19 pandemic

ESMA consults on technical standards on TRs for EMIR Refit
26 March 2020 Brussels
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

The suggested proposals by ESMA build upon the existing rules as well as the experience in implementing EMIR since 2012

SFTR delayed until July, legal explainer
19 March 2020 Paris
Reporter: Drew Nicol

ESMA has requested NCAs do not enforce SFTR until July in response to industry concerns and the market chaos caused by the COVID-19 outbreak

Delayed: CSDR settlement discipline regime
05 February 2020 Paris
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Following a series of warning calls from industry stakeholders, ESMA is backing a delay to the CSDR settlement discipline regime originally due in September

Trade bodies unite to call for CSDR buy-in delay
24 January 2020 Paris
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Fourteen trade associations including ISLA, ICMA and AFME have sent a joint letter to the EU requesting radical reforms to CSDR’s settlement regime to avoid a liquidity crisis in Septemeber

Clearstream’s CSD gains CSDR licence
24 January 2020 Frankfurt
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The German market regulator has granted a CSDR licence to Deutsche Boerse subsidiary, Clearstream Banking

ESMA names Robert Ophèle acting chair of CCP supervisory committee
06 December 2019 Kent
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

The CCP supervisory committee is being established as part of the reform of the current regime for the authorisation, recognition and supervision of CCPs under EMIR 2.2