On the Official Journal of the European Union has been published the Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/527

of 15 December 2020 amending Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/565 as regards the thresholds for weekly

position reporting.

On the Official Journal of the European Union has been published the Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/528

supplementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1129 (Prospectus Regulation) as regards the minimum information content of the document to be published for a prospectus exemption in connection with a takeover by means of an exchange offer, a merger or a division.

On the Official Journal of the European Union has been published the Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/529 establishing regulatory technical standards amending Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/583 as regards adjustment of liquidity thresholds and trade percentiles used to determine the size specific to the instrument applicable to certain non-equity instruments.

On the Official Journal of the European Union has been published the Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/517 amending Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/2361 as regards the arrangements for the payment of contributions to the administrative expenditures of the Single Resolution Board.

Consob has ordered the blackout of 5 new websites that abusively offer financial services:

– KBS Capital Markets Ltd (website www.swisspremiumfx.com and related page https://my.swisspremiumfx.com);

– Terratech Ltd (websites www.bimfx24.co and www.eurtrade24.com);

– Lollygag Partners LTD (website https://finocapital.io);

– Widdershins Group Ltd (website https://24fintime.io).

The number of websites blacked out since July 2019 has thus risen to 410.

The Bank of Italy today publishes ‘Green Bonds: the Sovereign Issuers’ Perspective’, the third issue of the series ‘Markets, infrastructures, payment systems’.

After a brief illustration of sovereign green bonds’ features, this paper describes the market evolution and identifies the main benefits and costs for sovereign issuers. The analysis of the financial performance of these securities shows that the sovereign green bonds’ performance is essentially in line with that of conventional bonds.