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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

UnaVista fined for EMIR data failures
23 September 2021 UK
Reporter: Bob Currie

ESMA has fined UnaVista Limited, the London-based trade repository, €238,500 for failing to ensure data integrity and failing to provide direct and immediate access for regulators to trade data through its EMIR reporting service

Trade associations call for EC equivalence extension for UK CCPs
17 September 2021 UK
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

This equivalence decision is set to expire on 30 June, but the associations request that the EC provide clarity as soon as possible and well in advance of March 2022

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

Dan Houlihan departs Northern Trust
03 August 2021 US
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Dan Houlihan has left Northern Trust as head of asset servicing

ESMA publishes MIFID II/MIFIR annual review report
28 July 2021 France
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has advised the European Commission to move to stage three of the phase-in for the transparency requirements for RTS 2 under MiFID II/MiFIR suitability requirements

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

James von Moltke appointed chair of Euro risk-free rates working group
02 July 2021 Euro area
Reporter: Bob Currie

ESMA says that Deutsche Bank’s von Moltke will take over from ING’s Tanate Phutrakul in leading the EUR RFR group

ESMA registers first two repositories under the Securitisation Regulation
28 June 2021 France
Reporter: Bob Currie

The European DataWarehouse, located in Germany, and Netherlands-based SecRep become the first two SRs to be licensed under this regulation

ESMA releases 2020 Annual Report
16 June 2021 France
Reporter: Bob Currie

EU securities market regulator reflects on its work during 2020 and actions relating to supervisory convergence, Single Rulebook and oversight of financial infrastructure

ESMA publishes new stress test framework for CCPs
10 June 2021 France
Reporter: Bob Currie

The 2021 Stress Test, which is the fourth iteration of its evaluation framework, draws on experience gained from previous evaluation exercises