EU Financial Regulatory Q&A Database
Official Q&As published by EBA, ESMA, EIOPA and the ESA Joint Committee. Non-binding but treated as authoritative guidance by national competent authorities across the EU.
139 Q&As matching current filters · page 1 of 3
Legal qualification of Financial Transmission Rights under MiFID II
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Directive 2014/65/EU- Secondary Markets
Answered 2026-05-26
Position reporting
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Directive 2014/65/EU- Secondary Markets
Answered 2025-12-11
Position reporting
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Directive 2014/65/EU- Secondary Markets
Answered 2025-12-11
Transactions that should be included in the calculations
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Directive 2014/65/EU- Secondary Markets
Answered 2025-10-10
Q&A on open interest thresholds in energy derivatives
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Directive 2014/65/EU- Secondary Markets · Art. Article 83(1)(b) of CDR 2017/565; Article 57(1) of MiFID II
Answered 2025-02-13
Application of MiFID II after 3 January 2018, including issues of ‘late transposition’
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Directive 2014/65/EU- Secondary Markets
Answered 2024-10-16
Application of MiFID II after 3 January 2018, including issues of ‘late transposition’
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Directive 2014/65/EU- Secondary Markets
Answered 2024-10-16
Trading venue and exemption
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Directive 2014/65/EU- Secondary Markets
Answered 2024-10-16
Access rights to venues trading for CCP with links with tradibg venue which opted out the access provisions for ETDs
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Directive 2014/65/EU- Secondary Markets
Answered 2024-10-16
Q&A on lot sizes and position limits
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Directive 2014/65/EU- Secondary Markets
Answered 2024-10-11
MiFID II Q&A on the Ancillary Activity Exemption
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Directive 2014/65/EU- Secondary Markets
Answered 2024-03-05
Market making in securitised derivatives
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Directive 2014/65/EU- Secondary Markets · Art. Article 2(1)(b)
Answered 2024-01-08
Multilateral and bilateral systems - Systematic internalisers
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Directive 2014/65/EU- Secondary Markets
Answered 2022-12-16
Ancillary activity excemption
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Directive 2014/65/EU- Secondary Markets
Answered 2022-09-23
Hedge exemption
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Directive 2014/65/EU- Secondary Markets
Answered 2022-09-23
Position limits on a trading venue or EEOTC
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Directive 2014/65/EU- Secondary Markets
Answered 2022-09-23
Securitised derivatives
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Directive 2014/65/EU- Secondary Markets · Art. Art 57(1) and 58(1) of MiFID II
Answered 2022-09-23
Position reporting
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Directive 2014/65/EU- Secondary Markets
Answered 2022-09-23
Agricultural contracts
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Directive 2014/65/EU- Secondary Markets
Answered 2022-09-23
Intercommodity spread or diff contracts
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Directive 2014/65/EU- Secondary Markets
Answered 2022-09-23
Scope of the ancillary activity test
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Directive 2014/65/EU- Secondary Markets
Answered 2022-09-23
Position limits - the definition of "a lot"
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Directive 2014/65/EU- Secondary Markets
Answered 2022-09-23
Third country issues
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Directive 2014/65/EU- Secondary Markets
Answered 2022-09-23
Position limits for options and futures
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Directive 2014/65/EU- Secondary Markets
Answered 2022-09-23
Position reporting
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Directive 2014/65/EU- Secondary Markets
Answered 2022-09-23
Calculation of denominator
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Directive 2014/65/EU- Secondary Markets
Answered 2022-09-23
Various underlyings listed in Annex I, Section C(10) of MIFID II?
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Directive 2014/65/EU- Secondary Markets
Answered 2022-09-23
Criteria privileged transactions exemption
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Directive 2014/65/EU- Secondary Markets
Answered 2022-09-23
Direct Electronic Access (DEA) and algorithmic trading - Trading venues
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Directive 2014/65/EU- Secondary Markets
Answered 2022-09-23
Position reporting
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Directive 2014/65/EU- Secondary Markets
Answered 2022-09-23
Positions with different maturities
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Directive 2014/65/EU- Secondary Markets
Answered 2022-09-23
Direct Electronic Access (DEA) and algorithmic trading - Article 17 of MiFID II and RTS 6 - Third party systems with algorithmic trading functionalities
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Directive 2014/65/EU- Secondary Markets
Answered 2022-07-15
Direct Electronic Access (DEA) and algorithmic trading - Trading functionalities with automated management of orders
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Directive 2014/65/EU- Secondary Markets
Answered 2022-07-15
Minimum tick size regime under Article 49 of MiFID II - Pre-trade transparency waivers
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Directive 2014/65/EU- Secondary Markets
Answered 2021-04-06
Direct Electronic Access (DEA) and algorithmic trading
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Directive 2014/65/EU- Secondary Markets
Answered 2021-02-03
Multilateral and bilateral systems - Systematic internalisers - Matched Principal Trading
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Directive 2014/65/EU- Secondary Markets
Answered 2021-02-03
Systematic internaliser regime - Transparency - Internaliser Thresholds
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Directive 2014/65/EU- Secondary Markets
Answered 2020-07-08
Multilateral and bilateral systems - Authorisation as trading venue for a system facilitating the multilateral interaction of trading interests in securities financing transactions
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Directive 2014/65/EU- Secondary Markets
Answered 2020-05-29
Tick size regime - Periodic auctions systems
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Directive 2014/65/EU- Secondary Markets
Answered 2019-10-02
Price Multiplier for electricity derivative contracts
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Directive 2014/65/EU- Secondary Markets
Answered 2019-09-04
Voluntary SI regime
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Directive 2014/65/EU- Secondary Markets · Art. Markets in Financial Instruments Regulations (MiFIR) Regulation (EU) No 600/2014- Secondary Markets
Answered 2019-06-03
Third country trading venue request access to an EU CCP in the absence of an equivalence decision
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Directive 2014/65/EU- Secondary Markets
Answered 2019-04-02
Multilateral and bilateral systems - Systematic internalisers
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Directive 2014/65/EU- Secondary Markets
Answered 2019-04-01
Multilateral and bilateral systems - Systematic internalisers - “risk-facing activity”
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Directive 2014/65/EU- Secondary Markets
Answered 2019-04-01
Direct Electronic Access (DEA) and algorithmic trading - Article 19 of CDR 2017/565 - high frequency trading techniques tests
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Directive 2014/65/EU- Secondary Markets
Answered 2019-02-01
Schedule for the initial implementation of the systematic internaliser regime
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Directive 2014/65/EU- Secondary Markets
Answered 2019-01-30
Requirement imposed on market markers to post simultaneous two-way quotes of comparable size
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Directive 2014/65/EU- Secondary Markets
Answered 2018-11-14
Can a market operator or an investment firm operating an MTF apply for a single segment of the MTF to be registered as an SME growth market?
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Directive 2014/65/EU- Secondary Markets
Answered 2018-10-04
Market making agreement for payment received from a trading venue
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Directive 2014/65/EU- Secondary Markets
Answered 2018-10-04
Incentives to be provided under stressed market conditions by the trading venues
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Directive 2014/65/EU- Secondary Markets
Answered 2018-10-04
Source: EBA Single Rulebook Q&A, ESMA Q&A, EIOPA Q&A, ESA Joint Q&As. Updated weekly. Q&As are non-binding guidance.
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