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ESMA withdraws third-country recognition from UAE CCPs
26 July 2023 EU
Reporter: Bob Currie

The European Commission has highlighted “strategic deficiencies” in the UAE’s anti-money laundering and counter financing of terrorism regime and added the jurisdiction to its list of high-risk countries on 16 March 2023

ESMA releases UCITS and AIFMD sanction reports
21 July 2023 France
Reporter: Lucy Carter

ESMA has published its 2022 report on sanctions under the Undertakings for Collective Investments in Transferable Securities directive and the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive

ESMA releases first MiCA consultation package
13 July 2023 France
Reporter: Lucy Carter

ESMA has published the first of three consultation packages under the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation

ESMA publishes manual on post-trade transparency
11 July 2023 EU
Reporter: Jamie Richards

The European Union’s financial markets watchdog has published a guide to post-trade transparency requirements and guidance regarding how to apply commitments under the Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation in a consistent way

EFAMA responds to EU’s proposed RTS changes under SFDR
10 July 2023 EU
Reporter: Jamie Richards

EFAMA has called for more time to implement changes and for more consistency with existing policy

ESMA launches CSA for sustainability measures
07 July 2023 EU
Reporter: Jamie Richards

The EU’s financial markets regulator and supervisor aims to assess the compliance of supervised asset managers with relevant provisions of SFDR, the Taxonomy Regulation, UCITS and AIFMD

ESMA publishes second overview of national rules governing fund marketing
04 July 2023 France
Reporter: Klea Neza

ESMA has submitted to the European Parliament, the Council and the European Commission its second report on national rules governing the marketing of investment funds

AFME backs EU Council and European Parliament’s provisional CSDR agreement
27 June 2023 Europe
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

The proposed law aims to reduce the financial and regulatory burden on central securities depositories and improve their ability to operate across borders, while also strengthening financial stability

ESMA defines its five-year data strategy
16 June 2023 EU
Reporter: AST

The EU securities market regulator focuses on fostering effective markets and financial stability, strengthening EU financial supervision and improving protection for retail investors in its 2023-28 data programme

ESMA releases greenwashing progress report
02 June 2023 France
Reporter: Lucy Carter

The publication is part of the European Supervisory Authorities’ efforts to ensure a high-level understanding of greenwashing across the financial industry

ESMA releases its fifth CCP stress testing exercise
01 June 2023 EU, UK
Reporter: Bob Currie

In line with ESMA’s legal mandate under EMIR, this exercise will assess the resilience of CCPs to adverse market shocks and the danger that failure of a CCP or clearing member can propagate risk across the financial system

ESMA goes live with DLT pilot
23 March 2023 Europe
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The pilot builds on the existing MiFIR regulation to include tokenised financial instruments. This aims to bring pre- and post-trade transparency and market abuse monitoring to DLT-based securities