International Regulatory Updates
JUNE 02, 2017
What’s Inside This Issue:
MFSA hosts EU Presidency events
Moody's: Malta's credit profile balances favourable economic prospects against fiscal challenges
MFSA updates Market on MiFID II and MiFIR
ECC discusses public financial literacy ...
MAY 26, 2017
The European Banking Authority launched today a consultation focusing on the scope of its draft Guidelines on connected clients, on which it had already sought the stakeholders’ views in July 2016. In the new consultation, the EBA is proposing to extend the scope of these draft Guidelines to the ...
MAY 26, 2017
The European Banking Authority launched today a consultation focusing on the scope of its draft Guidelines on connected clients, on which it had already sought the stakeholders' views in July 2016. In the new consultation, the EBA is proposing to extend the scope of these draft Guidelines to the re ...
MAY 26, 2017
The European Banking Authority (EBA) welcomes the enhancement of the FX Global Code (the Code) and the publication of its May 2017 update. The objective of the Code is to promote a robust, fair, liquid, open, and transparent market underpinned by high ethical standards, which shall benefit all whole ...
MAY 26, 2017
The European Banking Authority (EBA) announced today that it will publish data for its fourth annual EU-wide transparency exercise in December 2017 together with the Risk Assessment Report (RAR). Nearly 600000 data points in total on more than 130 banks will be released, covering all key balance she ...
MAY 24, 2017
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published a Consultation Paper (CP) on the Money Market Funds Regulation (MMFR). The CP contains proposals on draft technical advice (TA), draft implementing technical standards (ITS), and guidelines under the MMFR. The key proposals relate ...
MAY 22, 2017
A biennial exercise to gain insight into the risks and vulnerabilities of the European occupational pensions sector
Designed to focus on the resilience of IORPs to a ‘double-hit’ scenario and the assessment of its impact on the real economy and financial markets
Click here to access the fu ...
MAY 22, 2017
1 Legal basis
ESMA’s competence to deliver an opinion to competent authorities is based on Article 29(1)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 1095/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 November 2010 establishing a European Supervisory Authority (European Securities and Markets Authorit ...
MAY 16, 2017
The ECB today published its guidance on leveraged transactions. The publication of the guidance marks the end of a public consultation process.
The guidance seeks to facilitate the identification of leveraged transactions by means of an overarching definition encompassing all business units and g ...
MAY 15, 2017
The European Central Bank (ECB) has today published the ECB guide to fit and proper assessments. The guide explains how ECB Banking Supervision ensures consistency in the application of the fit and proper assessment criteria, with a view to establishing common supervisory practices for assessing the ...
