The consultation paper aims to clarify the classifications of derivatives and provide a consistent approach for entities operating across the EU. The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) ...

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Supra-national regulator the European Securities and Market Authority has written to the European Commission to ask for a single Europe-wide definition of a derivative or derivative contract.

Derivatives offer a tool to mitigate financial risk by hedging against adverse price movements. Investors use derivatives to control large asset amounts with minimal investments, amplifying gains but ...

European companies have been struggling to implement EMIR, which requires them to report all derivative contracts from February 12, amid widespread confusion and culminating in the European Securities ...

Market participants have advised Europe’s securities watchdog to keep the specifications for deciding which OTC derivatives can be cleared as broad as possible to avoid circumvention of new ...

Stricter derivative margin requirements have increased the demand for liquid collateral, but euro area investment funds, which use derivatives extensively, have been reducing their liquid asset ...

Europe's derivatives regulator said Friday it will suspend some newly introduced rules on reporting trades in the foreign exchange and commodities markets, and asked the European Commission for ...