On 15 October 2026 ESMA published a new version of its Manual on pre-trade and post-trade transparency under MiFID II/MiFIR (ESMA74-2134169708-6870). The ESMA transparency manual now gives field-level guidance on how trading venues, approved publication arrangements (APAs) and the future OTC derivatives consolidated tape should identify the OTC derivatives caught by Article 8a(2) of MiFIR:…
On 10 July 2026 ESMA announced thirteen Q&A repository items across the EU ESG Ratings Regulation, the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation and MiFIR secondary markets. All thirteen items carry published answers. The individual records also show that several answers pre-date 10 July 2026. None of the thirteen published answers creates a new reporting template or…
On 6 July 2026 the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) selected Etrading Software (Netherlands) B.V. to run the EU’s OTC derivatives consolidated tape, naming it the consolidated tape provider for over-the-counter derivatives under the Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR). It is the third and last asset class under Article 27da of MiFIR to…