ACER has announced a day long public online REMIT II workshop on 11th June covering surveillance and reporting matters. More information and registration can be found here.

ESMA has produced an interim report around the Call for Evidence process to reform reporting under EMIR, MIFID II and SFTR. They will run an online public hearing on 28th May. The report and registration can be found here.

ACER has also issued two annual reports on monitoring matters. One covers the preparedness of persons professionally arranging transactions (PPATs) to detect and report suspicious behaviour. The other covers National regulatory authorities’ (NRAs’) analysis of suspicious transaction and order reports (STORs) submitted by PPATs, their enforcement actions and penalties. They can be found here. Amongst other things, the reports find a significant increase in the number of STORs submitted.

ESMA has updated their opinion on the “trading venue perimeter”. This impacts which platforms and facilities are classified as a “multilateral system” under MFIDI II and therefore subject to financial regulation. The document can be found here.