News

• Consob appoints the Chairman and the thirty Members of the Italian Committee of Market Operators and Investors (Comi)
• ESMA renews binary options prohibition for a further three-months period from 2 April 2019
• Published new Legal Consob n. 20: "The new route of silk and foreign direct investments in high technological intensity sectors, the golden power of the italian State and the financial infrastructure"
• Amendments to the Consob market regulations regarding connected and instrumental activities and further proposals for intervention - Public consultation document
• The digitisation of investment advice: Fintech Paper n. 3 published
• CONSOB hearing on the bill to delegate authority to the government for the transposition of the EU directives and the implementation of other acts of the European Union
• Brexit: ESMA-Bank of England agreements on the recognition of British Central Counterparties (CCP) and the Central Securities Depository (CSD) in the case of no deal Brexit
• ESMA agrees no-deal Brexit MOUs with the Bank of England for recognition of UK CCPs and the UK CSD (Esma Press Release 4^th February 2019)
• FinTech and the data economy. Considerations on certain civil and penal aspects: Fintech Paper n. 2 published
• European Securities and Markets Authority (Esma): Questions and Answers about Prospectus Directive (PD) and Transparency Directive (TD) in case of a no deal Brexit
• ESMA and EU securities regulators agree no-deal Brexit MoUs with FCA (ESMA Press Release of January, 31 2019)
• Financial education in the workplace: protocol between the Edufin Committee and INAIL
• New CONSOB Statistics Bulletin published: "Data on listed companies and financial intermediation in the first half of 2018"
• CONSOB Intervention measures on the offering of binary options and contracts for difference to retail investors - Press release of January 7^th, 2019
• Banks: Consob opens the consultation with the market on the information to be delivered to the public with reference to the Supervisory Review and Evaluation Process (SREP) - Press release of January 2^nd, 2019
• Consob suspended financial instruments issued or guaranteed by Banca CARIGE S.p.A. from trading on regulated markets and Italian multilateral trading systems (Resolution no. 20771 of January 1^st, 2019)
• Recommendation proposal on the information related to the Supervisory Review and Evaluation Process, in substitution of Consob Communication n. 0090883 of November 26, 2015 - Public consultation document
• ESMA's Product Intervention Renewal Decision in relation to binary options
• Esma to renew restrictions on CFDs for a further three months from 1^st February 2019
• Procedure updates to file mutual funds' offering documentation (DEPROF)
• Notice concerning the Guidelines issued by the ESMA on certain aspects of the suitability requirements within the framework of Directive 2014/65/EU (MiFID II)
• Implementing procedures for Resolution 20621/2018 for the part concerning the definition of issuers of ‘SME' listed shares
• "Beware of scams!", finance on stage: Rome, November 20
• Consob adopts a temporary ban on short selling on Banca Carige shares. The ban shall apply immediately and shall last until Monday 19 November 2018 end of day (Press release of November 16, 2018)
• Consob adopts a temporary ban on short selling on Banca CARIGE shares - The ban shall apply for the entire trading day of Wednesday 14 November 2018 (Press release of November 13, 2018)