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On November 16, 2015, ESMA published a Protocol on the operation of its online Market in Financial Instruments Directive database.

European Securities And Markets Authority Publishes Final Draft Technical Standards Under The Market Abuse Regulation

On February 25, 2015, ESMA published the results of its peer review of supervision and enforcement of the best execution provisions in the Market in Financial Instruments Directive by national regulators.

On December 23, 2015, the EU Regulation on the Reporting and Transparency of Securities Financing Transactions and of Reuse, known as the SFTR, was published in the Official Journal of the European Union.

On 13 July 2016, ESMA published an updated version of its Q&A on MAR on closed periods, i.e. where persons discharging managerial responsibilities are prohibited from dealing in shares and debt instruments of the issuers.

On 4 December 2019, ESMA published its final report on the draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) amending delegated Regulation EU 2019/979.

On 12 September 2013 Advocate-general Jääskinen delivered his opinion in the case of the UK v. the Council of the European Union and European Parliament in which the UK contests the validity of Article 28 of the Short Selling Regulation. Article 28 gives the European Securities and Markets Authority ("ESMA") the power to require disclosure of short positions or to ban short selling of certain financial instruments in emergency situations.

On 23 October 2015, the European Securities and Markets Authority ("ESMA") published an update to its Q&As on the Transparency Directive.

On 3 April 2014, the new EU Directive on the freezing and confiscation of proceeds of crime was signed.

On 14 March 2016, the London Stock Exchange published N02/16, which is a notice setting out the revised Admission and Disclosure Standards and High Growth Segment Rulebook.

On June 2, 2015, the Amending Regulation setting out Regulatory Technical Standards on own funds requirements for institutions under CRD IV was published in the Official Journal of the European Union.

On February 5, 2018, the Chief Executive of the Financial Conduct Authority, Andrew Bailey, gave a speech on Brexit at the Future of the City dinner.

Partner Barney Reynolds (London-Financial Institutions Advisory & Financial Regulatory), was interviewed by Ian King Live on Sky News following the release of his latest paper Managing Euro Risk:

On 21 June 2019, the Official Journal published the Commission Delegated Regulation. The new Regulation is intended to work in conjunction with Directive 2014/65/EU

On 14 July 2014, the Council of the EU announced that it had adopted the Single Resolution Mechanism ("SRM") Regulation.

Yesterday afternoon, the Council of the European Union (EU) took a significant step forward in modernising the EU's payment services framework by formally agreeing on its negotiating mandate...

The RTS comes into effect on 26 June 2014.