ESMA updates its MiFID II Q&As on transparency

15 November 2017

The purpose of these Q&As is to promote common supervisory approaches and practices in the application of MiFID II and MiFIR.

Q&A provide responses to questions posed by the general public and market participants in relation to the practical application of transparency requirements. This update includes new answers regarding:

Pre- and post-trade transparency, and for equity and non-equity instruments;

Systematic Internalisiers;

Data reporting service providers; and

Third country issues.

The Q&A mechanism is a practical convergence tool used to promote common supervisory approaches and practices. ESMA will periodically review these Q&As on a regular basis to update them where required and to identify if, in a certain area, there is a need to convert some of the material into ESMA Guidelines and recommendations. 

Full Q&A


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