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ESMA prioritises sustainability, CMU and digitalisation for 2022
28 September 2021 EU
Reporter: Bob Currie

EU securities market regulator takes on new supervisory powers for benchmarks and data service providers and will concentrate on building a single rulebook and promoting its role as an EU capital markets data hub

ESMA recommends delaying buy-in rules
27 September 2021 Germany
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The EU regulator has written to the European Commission urging it to reconsider a delay of the mandatory buy-in regime

Clearstream secures CSDR licence for its German CSD
25 August 2021 Germany
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

The authorisation is effective from 24 August 2021 and represents the final step in achieving full CSDR compliance for all of Clearstream’s CSDs

ESMA: European Commission “needs to clarify certain aspects of CSDR”
09 August 2021 France
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

ESMA has spoken to National Competent Authorities and other relevant market players about their plans to use DLT for securities services in the coming future

Inadequacies of middle-office resulting in settlement failures, survey finds
27 July 2021 London
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

In a recent Torstone Technology survey, 60 per cent of institutions said that settlement failures, attributed to inadequacies of the middle-office, are still a significant problem for their business

Capco and AccessFintech partner over data workflow solution
26 July 2021 UK
Reporter: Rebecca Delaney

Capco has partnered with AccessFintech to enhance the engineering and delivery of the latter’s data management and workflow solution

Joint Associations (again) request clarification on CSDR mandatory buy-ins
15 July 2021 France
Reporter: Bob Currie

Letter from trade associations recommends that mandatory buy-in rules be “disapplied” from SDR provisions to come into force by February 2022

European Commission issues Interim Report on CSDR
30 June 2021 EU
Reporter: Bob Currie

Report says Commission will consider a REFIT legislative review of CSDR, subject to an impact assessment

ESMA responds to European Commission’s Review of CSDR
28 May 2021 France
Reporter: Bob Currie

EU securities market regulator calls for reform of T2S supervision framework

European CSD Association elects new chair and executive committee members
20 May 2021 Belgium
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

The European Central Securities Depositories Association has named Mark Gem of Clearstream Banking as chair of the board

Germany passes new electronic securities law
12 May 2021 Germany
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Dentons' Michael Huertas explains that the introduction of the eWpG marks a further move forward in the digital transformation and a move away from the need for paper-based certificates for notes

AccessFintech and SIX join forces to solve CSDR eligibility data challenges
04 May 2021 Switzerland
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

AccessFintech and SIX will automate the process of correctly determining the CSDR eligibility parameters of each trade using multiple data points by using SIX-provided pertinent data on the AccessFintech platform