The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) last week released a consultation paper with proposed new regulatory guidelines for Europe’s exchange-traded fund market. Following the release, Paul Amery, editor of IndexUniverse.eu ...

EFAMA has welcomed the publication by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) of its Consultation Paper setting out future guidelines on UCITS Exchange-Traded Funds (UCITS ETFs) and other UCITS issues. Broadly speaking, EFAMA ...

EFAMA this week was broadly in agreement with proposals setting out future guidelines on UCITS ETFs and other UCITS issues detailed by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) in its latest consultation paper. Critically, the ...

Article by Joe Beashel, Shay Lydon, Elizabeth Grace, Anne-Marie Bohan, Dualta Counihan, Liam Collins, Barry Lynch, Michael Jackson and Tara Doyle On 30 January 2012, the European Securities and Markets Authority ("ESMA") published a consultation paper ...

A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court has asked the State government to file a detailed affidavit on whether the Kerala Essential Services Maintenance Act (ESMA),1994 can be imposed in the case of nurses who are on strike. The Bench comprising Acting ...

Verena Ross, executive director of the sector's regulatory body -- the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) -- said the watchdog, which authorises all rating agencies in the EU, supported boosting competition in the sector but had some key concerns.

The national and regional agencies will need time to build up their credibility and to meet the conditions set by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), warns its Executive Director Verena Ross. Susan Launi, representing Fitch, confirms ...

The guidelines published by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) did not target ETFs which use a swap to deliver the return, but instead addressed some of the main risks relating to all ETFs as well as other Ucits products ...

BlackRock says its securities lending programme generates twice the market average as a result. True to regulatory form, Esma suggests greater transparency on how revenues from securities lending are divided would be beneficial. Currently the standard ...

"Always have your own view," he told a Goldman Sachs seminar on the European Union's European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA). Securities regulators can play an important role in policing this across the world as they supervise many asset managers ...