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Pan European financial regulator ESMA has announced an extension of at least four weeks to a number of consultations it currently has active, due to the chaos being caused by the Coronavirus in Europe.

ESMA stated that the extensions apply to the following consultations:

• Consultation on Guidelines on Internal Controls for CRAs
• Consultation on MiFIR report on SI
• Guidelines on securitisation repository data completeness and consistency thresholds
• Consultation on MiFID II/ MiFIR review report on the transparency regime for equity
• Draft Regulatory Technical Standards under the Benchmarks Regulation
• Draft technical standards on the provision of investment services and activities in the Union by third-country firms under MiFID II and MiFIR
• Consultation paper on MiFIR Review Report on Transparency for Non-equity TOD

More information on the matter and the new consultation deadline dates can be found here on ESMA’s web

site.

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