Podcast: ESMA Report: Undue Pressure on Companies
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published a final report and press release, providing technical advice to the European Commission (EC) on narrowing the scope of the Central Securities Depositories...more
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published its final technical advice to the European Commission (EC) on the review of the UCITS Eligible Assets Directive (EAD) accompanied by a press release. The EAD...more
Four industry associations—EFAMA, EACP, ISDA, and FIA—have published a letter addressed to the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) and the European Commission (EC), raising concerns about the implementation of...more
On 7 May 2025, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published its Final Report on, among other things, technical advice concerning EU Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) provisions that have been amended pursuant to...more
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published a final report in relation to the draft regulatory technical standards (RTS) specifying criteria for establishing and assessing the effectiveness of...more
The European Parliament has published draft report on reform to, and creation of, a Capital Markets Union (“CMU”). The European Commission has also a strategy for a savings and investments union (“SIU”), which seeks to offer...more
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published a letter (dated 3 March) addressed to the European Commission on the prioritisation of ESMA's 2025 deliverables. ESMA's letter sets out specific items which...more
The EU T+1 Coordination Committee has published its summary of a meeting held on 6 February 2025. At the meeting, the European Commission representative indicated that the proposal to amend EU CSDR to shorten the securities...more
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published technical standards in relation to the Central Securities Depositories Regulation (CSDR) Refit. There are three final reports with the draft technical...more
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published two consultation papers on central counterparty (CCP) authorisations, extensions and validations under the European Market Infrastructure Regulation 3 (EMIR...more
ESMA has launched a Consultation on a draft simplified disclosure template for "European private securitisations". The stated objective of the Consultation is to streamline disclosure templates for private...more
Key Points - The European Commission (“EU Commission”) has published its report on the functioning of the EU Securitisation Regulation which contains the EU Commission’s assessment of a number of key aspects of the...more
Below is a summary of the main developments in US and EU corporate governance and securities law and certain financial markets regulation developments since our last update in July 2019. ...more