ESMA recommends to the European Commission to permanently lower the threshold to notify net short positions on shares to national competent authorities (NCAs) from 0.2% to 0.1%.

ESMA has examined the evidence gathered after its successive emergency decisions, beginning in March 2020, which lowered, for the first time, the notification threshold to 0.1% on a […]

Published in the Official Journal of the European Union of 20 May 2021 the Recommendation (EU) 2021/801 of the European Commission of 18 May 2021 on the tax treatment of losses during the COVID-19 crisis.

In order to benefit businesses in light of the economic situation resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, the Recommendation […]

The European Commission has launched a consultation on its retail investment strategy.

The consultation will collect views and information that will help the Commission to develop its policies. In line with the objective of “an economy that serves people”, the Commission wants to ensure that the legal framework for retail investment is properly […]

The private sector working group on euro risk-free rates has published its recommendations addressing events that would trigger fallbacks in EURIBOR-related contracts, as well as €STR-based EURIBOR fallback rates (rates that could be used if a fallback is triggered).

The working group also published recommendations for the permanent and pre-cessation EURIBOR trigger events. While there […]

ESMA has launched a consultation seeking input from market participants on its MiFIDII /MiFIR Annual Review Report.

The Consultation Paper provides for the Annual Assessment of the operation of the thresholds for the liquidity determination of bonds and the trade percentiles determining the pre-trade SSTI-threshold which is currently subject to a a four-stage phase-in regime […]

EBA has published 2020 data relating to two key concepts and indicators in the Deposit Guarantee Schemes Directive (DGSD): available financial means, and covered deposits.

In 2020, nearly all Deposit Guarantee Schemes (DGS) in the EU, Iceland, Lichtenstein and Norway have increased their available financial means (AFM) for reimbursing depositors in case of bank failures […]

ESMA has updated its public register with the latest set of double volume cap (DVC) data under MiFID II.

Today’s updates include DVC data and calculations for the period 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2021 as well as updates to already published DVC periods.

EIOPA has launched its 2021 insurance stress test for the […]