investor protection topics. ESMA has added new Q&As covering the following topics:
The following questions have been added to the late
The European Securities and Markets (ESMA) has issued a statement to provide an update on its work in relation to the provision of contracts for differences (CFDs), including rolling spot forex and binary options to retail clients.
ESMA has been concerned about the provision of speculative products such as CFDs, including
The European Banking Authority (EBA) has published a report on liquidity measures under Article 509(1) of the Capital Requirements Regulation. The purpose of the report is to assess banks’ liquidity risk profiles in terms of their short-term resilience. The analysis is based on the QIS data of December 2016. The QIS data shows
The Council of the EU has published a corrigendum to the Regulation amending the Capital Requirements Regulation as regards transitional arrangements for mitigating the impact of the introduction of International Financial Reporting Standard 9 on own funds and for the large exposures treatment of certain public sector exposures denominated in other than domestic currencies of
The European Central Bank (ECB) has published a document setting out its priorities for the single supervisory mechanism (SSM) for 2018:
We are pleased to advise that the recording for our December 2017 MiFID II Academy webinar is now available. To access the recording, please click here.
The Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) has published Consultation and Decision Paper 17/44: PSR regulatory fees: Policy decision on the approach to the collection of PSR regulatory fees from 2018/19 and further consultation on the fees allocation method (CP17/44).
CP17/44 sets out the PSR’s decisions on some of the questions it asked
In October 2017, we blogged that the PRA published Occasional Consultation Paper 18/17 (CP18/17) setting out proposed changes to certain parts of the PRA Rulebook and certain Supervisory Statements.
The PRA has now published Policy Statement 31/17: Responses to Occasional Consultation Paper 18/17 – Chapters 7 and 8 (PS31/17). In PS31/17
In April 2017, the FCA published Discussion Paper 17/03: Distributed ledger technology (DLT) (DP17/03).The purpose of DP17/03 was to stimulate a dialogue on the regulatory implications of current and potential developments of DLT in the financial markets.
The FCA has now published Distributed ledger technology: Feedback statement on DP17/03 (FS17/03
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published a table that provides an overview of the current status of implementation of the applicable MiFIR deferred publication regime per Member State and type of instruments. The list is based exclusively on voluntary contributions from the relevant national competent authorities, and will be subject