ESMA Secures Annemie Rombouts as New Chair of CRSC

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) announced that it has secured Annemie Rombouts as its new Chair of the Corporate Reporting Standing Committee (CRSC), effective immediately. According to ...

AMF Head Calls for Changes to Crypto-Asset Regulation

France’s top financial regulator has called for a shake-up of how “crypto-assets that qualify as financial instruments” are supervised, a move that could have big implications for digital asset providers in t...

ESMA to Push for Crypto Regulations in EU Markets

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) on Thursday announced its intentions to focus on the data security of the financial industry, especially for crypto assets. In its Strategic Orientation f...

Binary Options Ban Renewed By ESMA

Any brokers still hoping for a repeal of the product intervention measures introduced earlier this year that prohibit the sale of binary options will have had those dreams crushed this week. The European Sec...

ESMA Extends Prohibition of Binary Options until 2019

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) announced today that it will continue to prohibit the marketing, distribution and sale of binary options to retail clients for another three months, effect...

ESMA Joins Fellow Regulators in Warning Against ICOs

The European Securities and Markets Authority and the Autoriteit Financiële Markten, the financial regulators of the EU and Holland respectively, have issued statements on the subject of initial coin offering...

ESMA Terminates All Bonus Practices Tied to Extra Trading

The European Securities Markets Authority (ESMA) has just issued a clarification related to the use of bonuses by retail forex and binary options brokerages. The supranational regulator of Europe states that ...