European Union’s derivatives markets

The European Securities and Markets Authority the EU’s securities regulator, published on 9th of December its second Annual Statistical Report analysing the European Union’s derivatives markets.  The Report, based on data submitted under the European Markets and Infrastructure Regulation, provides a comprehensive market-level view of the EU’s derivatives markets in 2018, which had a total size of €735tn gross notional amount outstanding, an increase of 11% on 2017.

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Non-European Union branches of EU firms

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published on 6th of February 2019 the MiFID II supervisory briefing on the supervision of non-European Union (EU) branches of EU firms providing investment services and activities. The supervisory briefing has been designed to assist national competent authorities (NCAs) in their supervision of the establishment by EU firms of branches in non-EU countries.

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