ESMA · ESMA_QA_1576 Published Answer Updated

DVC and corporate actions

Regulation
Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR) Regulation (EU) No 600/2014- Secondary Markets
Article
Regulation 2017/577- RTS on markets in financial instruments with regard to regulatory technical standards on the volume cap mechanism and the provision of information for the purposes of transparency and other calculations(RTS 3)
Topic
Double volume cap
Submitted
2018-07-12
Answered
2025-10-10

Question

In case of a corporate action where a traded ISIN is replaced with a new ISIN, how will the new ISIN be treated for the purposes of the SVC?

Answer

[ESMA 70-872942901-35 MiFIR transparency Q&A, Q&A 6.5] In case of a corporate action, where a traded ISIN is replaced with a new ISIN, the new ISIN will be treated as a newly admitted to trading or newly traded financial instrument and the ESMA DVC SVC calculations and publication will not take the trading activity of the old ISIN into account. In addition, while ESMA will publish the percentage of trading in this financial instrument carried out under the reference price waiver and the negotiated transaction waiver from the start of trading, suspensions following the breach of the thresholds set out under Article 5 of MiFIR should only be triggered when at least 12 months of data for the new ISIN is available. ESMA is however reflecting on ways and means to ensure more continuity in the treatment of financial instruments subject to corporate actions and might decide to revisit this approach in the future.

This Q&A is published by European Securities and Markets Authority and is non-binding. It does not constitute legal advice. Updated weekly from official ESA sources.

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