The possibility for UK CCPs to offer their service to European clearing houses has been a recurring issue since Brexit and their new status as "third country CCPs".

In March 2025, the European Commission published a report assessing the application of the Shareholder Rights Directives (SRDs) approximately four years after the entry into force of SRD2.

In Europe, sustainable finance regulations aim to regulate financial operations in order to support sustainable development, encourage asset managers to take ESG (Environment, Social and Governance) aspects into account and increase the transparency of financial product providers. Here, we will focus on the new directive proposed by the European Commission:...

Addressing market challenges, liquidity risks and establishing an appropriate deployment roadmap: Europe's post-trading agenda.

Financial intermediation by Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities (UCITS) has always been popular with general public investors in France.

Following the ESMA Final Report published in November 2024 and the Joint Communication of the European Commission, ESMA and the ECB on future governance, a new step has been taken.

The consultation launched by the European Markets Authority (ESMA) in the winter of 2023 provided an opportunity for the European regulator to propose a wide range of possible changes to the penalty regime, ranging from a simple change in the rates applied to complete overhauls of the system through the simple or convex introduction of progressive rates,...

On 10 December 2024, the Council of Europe adopted a directive with new rules for withholding tax procedures (FASTER).