On March 19, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published a statement announcing that it is establishing temporary measures on RTS 27 reports on execution quality. Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/575 contains regulatory technical standards (RTS) specifying the content, format and periodicity of the data published by execution venues on the quality of execution of transactions. The FCA refers to these RTS as RTS 27.
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On March 24, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published a statement announcing that it has not observed market or regulatory developments that warrant a change in its use of the Temporary Transitional Power (TTP) applying to the United Kingdom’s derivatives trading obligation (DTO).
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On March 10, the European Parliament adopted a legislative initiative report detailing recommendations for a new directive on corporate due diligence and corporate accountability for holding companies accountable for harm caused to human rights, the environment and good governance (the Report).
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On March 15, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) announced its decision not to renew the requirement for holders of net short positions in shares traded on an EU regulated market to inform the relevant national competent authority (NCA) if the position reaches, exceeds or falls below 0.1 percent of the issued share capital (the Press Release).
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On March 17, the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) published a joint consultation paper on draft regulatory technical standards (RTS) regarding the content and presentation of sustainability disclosures under Articles 8(4), 9(6) and 11(5) of the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation ((EU) 2019/2088) (SFDR).
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On March 8, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published a consultation paper detailing its proposals to regulate bidding for emissions allowances on the UK auction platform under the UK Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) (the Consultation Paper).
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On March 9, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) announced its first, post-Brexit annual transparency calculations for UK equity and equity-like financial instruments in response to the UK Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (the Press Release). The calculations will be available from April 1.
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On March 9, the European Parliament’s Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee (ECON) published a draft report detailing recommendations to the European Commission on the proposed Regulation on markets in cryptoassets and amending Directive (EU) 2019/1937 (the Draft Report).
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On March 10, the European Commission (the Commission) published a draft delegated act detailing the obligation on clearing members and clients when providing clearing services under fair, reasonable, non-discriminatory and transparent (FRANDT) commercial terms (the Delegated Act).
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