Investors face increasing risks amid renewed market volatility
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s securities regulator, has published the second Trends, Risks and Vulnerabilities (TRV) report for 2019. The report identifies a deteriorating outlook for the asset management industry and continued very high (...)
EIOPA investigates how ESG and climate risks will be included in Solvency 2
In March 2018, the European Commission adopted an action plan to integrate sustainable finance within the financial system. For this purpose it asked EIOPA and ESMA to submit proposals on how to take ESG and climate risks into account under Solvency 2 and the Insurance (...)
How well are European asset owners’ portfolios aligned with the Paris Agreement’s climate goals?
WWF identified the largest asset owners in 11 European countries and approached 88 of them to undertake a forward-looking climate scenario assessment. 33 agreed to disclose their climate alignment results in this report for a set of key climate-relevant technologies: coal (...)
ESMA consults on measures to promote sustainability in EU capital markets
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has today launched three public consultations on sustainable finance initiatives to support the European Commission’s (EC) Sustainability Action Plan in the areas of securities trading, investment funds and credit rating (...)
SIX breaks the 15 million barrier for regulatory documents
SIX’s regulatory data platform has added over 15 million Key Information Documents (KIDs) as client on-boarding demands go through the roof two months on from the implementation of the EU’s Packaged Retail and Insurance-based Investment Products (PRIIPs) (...)
NYSE BondMatch, the new Multilateral Trading Facility
NYSE BondMatch will enable professional investors to trade more than 1,800 international corporate, financial and covered bonds on a transparent order book with firm orders...
Sélection 1818: the new platform dedicated to independent financial advisors
Banque Privée 1818 and Rothschild & Cie Banque have signed the final agreement for the creation of their common platform dedicated to independent financial advisors, born out of the merger of Sélection R and 1818 (...)
T2S will provide a single technical platform for processing settlement instructions, in a harmonised manner, for 28 CSDs in Europe, in different currencies and at the same price for both domestic and cross-border (...)