2022

On 20 October 2022, there was published in the Official Journal of the European Union Corrigendum to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/389 of 8 March 2022 laying down Implementing Technical standards for the application of the Investment Firms Directive with regard to the structure, content lists and annual publication date of the information to be…

On 21 October 2022, there was published in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJ) Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/1988 of 12 July 2022 extending the transitional period for continuing to provide crowdfunding services in accordance with national law as referred to in Article 48(1) of Regulation (EU) 2020/1503 of the European Parliament and…

On 21 October 2022, there was published in the Official Journal of the European Union a communication from the European Commission on guidelines for a best-execution process for sales of non-performing loans (NPLs) on secondary markets.

The communication sets forth that the objective of these guidelines is to encourage good sell and buy-side…

On 20 October 2022, the European Banking Authority (EBA) published a new set of guidelines and two final draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) specifying technical aspects of the revised framework capturing interest rate risks for banking book (IRRBB) positions.

The new guidelines and draft RTS complete the onboarding into EU…

On 20 October 2022, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published an updated version of its Q&As on the implementation of the Central Securities Depositories Regulation. ESMA has updated three questions in the Q&As dealing with settlement discipline. Specifically, the updated questions concern cash penalties and relate to scope, calculation and costs

On 19 October 2022, the Council of the EU announced that provisional agreement had been reached on the review of the regulation on European long-term investment funds (ELTIF) in order to make these investment funds more attractive.

In their alignment, the co-legislators intend to overcome a number of supply-side and demand-side limitations. They…

On Tuesday, 18 October 2022, the European Commission (“the Commission”) published a communication setting out an EU Action Plan for Digitalising the Energy System. Amongst initiatives focussed on improving the functioning of the EU’s energy markets, such as the creation of a common European energy data space, improving strategic European coordination for energy markets…

On 18 October 2022, the EU Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) and the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) announced that they are strengthening their cooperation to further improve information exchange and avoid potential market abuse in Europe’s spot and derivative markets.

Henceforth, ACER and ESMA have announced…

On 18 October 2022, the European Commission published a Commission Delegated Regulation amending the regulatory technical standards laid down in Delegated Regulation (EU) 149/2013 as regards the value of the clearing threshold for positions held in over-the-counter (OTC) commodity derivatives contracts and other OTC derivative contracts.

The Delegated Regulation modifies Article 11 of…