Financial Markets In Brief – New Regulation And Other Developments

There have been many developments in national and European financial markets regulation during the past month. Among other things, the Minister of Finance unfolded plans to revise the Dutch Financial Markets Supervision Act. In this article we provide a brief overview of this and other developments.

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Market Abuse Directive and Regulation Implementation Bill

This bill implements the Market Abuse Directive (MAD) and reflects the changes brought about by the Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) by amending, among other things, the Dutch Financial Markets Supervision Act (Wft). The main rule remains unchanged: if a listed company has inside information directly concerning the company, it should, as a general rule, immediately make this information public. Under the new market abuse regime, if an issuer has delayed disclosing information to the public, that issuer must inform the competent authority immediately after the information is disclosed