EU Financial Regulatory Q&A Database

Prior permission for repurchase of CET 1 instruments for discretionary trading activity over treasury shares for a certain predetermined amount.

Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 77

Derivative adjustment of the basic annual contribution through mark-to-market method

Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 274

Effective Maturity calculation for fully/nearly fully collateralised derivatives and Security Financing Transcations

Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 162

Instrumenty w Tier II / Tier 2 instruments and incentives to redeem or repay subordinated bonds prior to their maturity.

Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 63

Minority Interests

Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 81

Cap on inflows for consumer finance or leasing and factoring activity

Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 33

Compliance by reference; Paragraph 45 and 46 of the APMs Guidelines (not applicable to prospectuses which are covered by a separate regime).

Transparency Directive (TD) Directive 2004/109/EC

Definition of an APM; Paragraph 17 to 19 and 24 of the APMs Guidelines.

Transparency Directive (TD) Directive 2004/109/EC

Recording of telephone conversations and electronic communications

Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR) Regulation (EU) No 600/2014 - Investor Protection and Intermediaries

Best Execution

Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Directive 2014/65/EU- Investor Protection and Intermediaries

Direct Electronic Access (DEA) and algorithmic trading

Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR) Regulation (EU) No 600/2014- Secondary Markets

Order Record Keeping

Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR) Regulation (EU) No 600/2014- MDP

Field 30 - Quantity

Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR) Regulation (EU) No 600/2014- MDP

Direct Electronic Access (DEA) and algorithmic trading

Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Directive 2014/65/EU- Secondary Markets

Trading venues

Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR) Regulation (EU) No 600/2014- Secondary Markets

Position reporting

Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Directive 2014/65/EU- Secondary Markets

Position reporting

Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Directive 2014/65/EU- Secondary Markets

Systematic internaliser

Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Directive 2014/65/EU- Secondary Markets

NFE application of a trading venue for position limit exemption

Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Directive 2014/65/EU- Secondary Markets

Transaction reporting

Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR) Regulation (EU) No 600/2014- MDP

Kill functionality

Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Directive 2014/65/EU- Secondary Markets

Reference Data for financial instruments

Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR) Regulation (EU) No 600/2014- MDP

Transparent and non-discriminatory rules

Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Directive 2014/65/EU- Secondary Markets

Trading venues - OTRs

Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Directive 2014/65/EU- Secondary Markets

Transaction reporting

Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR) Regulation (EU) No 600/2014- MDP

Order to Trade Ratio (OTR)

Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Directive 2014/65/EU- Secondary Markets

Position reporting

Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Directive 2014/65/EU- Secondary Markets

Record-keeping obligations of HFT firms - non-algorithmic trading desks

Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Directive 2014/65/EU- Secondary Markets

Position reporting

Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Directive 2014/65/EU- Secondary Markets

Trading venues - maximum bid-ask ranges for all instruments traded on venues or only for instruments with market making scheme

Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Directive 2014/65/EU- Secondary Markets

CCP - novation trade acceptance model

Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Directive 2014/65/EU- Secondary Markets

Positions held by an investment firm on behalf of their clients

Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Directive 2014/65/EU- Secondary Markets

Unauthorised person as an investment firm meeting the requirements of Article 53(3) of MiFID II being a member or participant of a regulated market or an MTF

Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Directive 2014/65/EU- Secondary Markets

Under which circumstances a trading venue may cancel, vary or correct a transaction?

Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Directive 2014/65/EU- Secondary Markets

Position reporting

Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Directive 2014/65/EU- Secondary Markets

Closely associated persons under Article 3(1)(26)(d) of MAR

Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 - Market Intergrity

Transitional provisions applicable to EU index providers starting to provide a benchmark between 1 July 2016 and 31 December 2017 (ESMA70-145-114_Q&A 9.2)

Benchmarks Regulation (BMR) - Regulation 2016/1011

Transitional provisions applicable to EU index providers already providing a benchmark on 30 June 2016 (ESMA70-145-114_Q&A 9.1)

Benchmarks Regulation (BMR) - Regulation 2016/1011

Is it possible for an insurance company to satisfy the criteria in Point 47 of Annex II, Part 2?

PRIIPs

In the case of private Equity, infrastructure and other similar funds where the investments to be made by those funds are unknown at the date of creation/investment in the fund, how to anticipate cost

PRIIPs

At what frequency must the Recurring costs and Incidental costs be calculated?

PRIIPs

Where the investor has access to a compensation scheme for the investment amount of the KID, is it correct to assume that credit risk is zero? It is not correct to assume that there is no credit risk.

PRIIPs

Appendix I Standardised transaction costs: examples of calculation [Last update 4 July 2017] The procedure explained in Point (c) of Point 21 of Annex VI, Part I can be broken down as follows:

PRIIPs

In case a PRIIP is a fund of funds, where the underlying investment is a fund which is in turn investing in another fund, should we consider the funds in which the PRIIP is investing in directly as th

PRIIPs

Could you specify which types of costs of capital guarantee provided by a third party guarantor are those mentioned in Point 5 (i) of Annex VI?

PRIIPs

Please clarify the requirement in Point 38 of Annex II, part II: where a credit assessment is not available under both (a) and (b), i.e. there is not both a credit assessment assigned to the PRIIP and

PRIIPs

Is it fair to assume that a EU-regulated UCITS fund will always meet the requirements under Annex II Point 46 (a) and (b) and thus the CRM for a UCITS fund will always be equal to 1. If not under what

PRIIPs

The main difference between Category 2 and Category 3 is whether the condition of “constant multiple” is fulfilled in Annex II, Part 1, Point 5. Would it be correct to treat unit-linked insurance prod

PRIIPs

In Annex II, Part 1, Points 9 and 10 it states that the minimum observation frequency is monthly but subsequently it is specified that in the event of bi-monthly publication of prices the frequency wi

PRIIPs

Will it be possible for the manufacturer to include certain products, such as leveraged products, voluntarily in “Category 1” for the purposes of the market risk assessment?

PRIIPs