On 13 June 2025, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published its Annual Report for 2024.
The Annual Report provides an account of the activities carried out by ESMA in the implementation of its mandate and work programme in 2024.
Among other things the Annual Report notes that in 2024 ESMA achieved a number of significant milestones including:
- ESMA position paper on ‘Building more effective and attractive capital markets in the EU’.
- ESMA report on the shortening of the settlement cycle.
- Creation of the Digital Operation Resilience Act’s Joint Oversight Venture across the three European Supervisory Authorities.
- Guidelines on the use of ESG and sustainability-related terms to reduce the risk of greenwashing.
- Delegation of data collection, processing and monitoring tasks to ESMA under the Markets in Crypto Assets Regulation.
- Common supervisory action and mystery shopping exercise on marketing communications.