ESMA launches bond liquidity system under MIFID II
02 May 2018 Paris
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The European 厙惇勛圖 and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published its first liquidity assessment for bonds subject to the pre- and post-trade requirements of the second Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) and Regulation (MiFIR).
ESMAs assessment of the European bond market for Q1 2018 found 220 bonds (out of 71,000 for which the assessment was executed) to be sufficiently liquid to be subject to MiFID IIs real-time transparency requirements.
The full list of liquid bonds is available through ESMAs Financial Instruments Transparency System (FITRS).
The ESMA liquidity assessment for bonds is based on a quarterly assessment of quantitative liquidity criteria, such as the daily average trading activity (trades and notional amounts) and number of days traded per quarter.
The quality of ESMAs assessment depends on the data submitted to ESMA, the data received so far, for Q1 2018, is not fully complete for most instruments, according to the authority.
These data completeness and quality issues result in a lower number of liquid instruments identified compared to ESMAs earlier transitional transparency calculations.
ESMAs assessment of the European bond market for Q1 2018 found 220 bonds (out of 71,000 for which the assessment was executed) to be sufficiently liquid to be subject to MiFID IIs real-time transparency requirements.
The full list of liquid bonds is available through ESMAs Financial Instruments Transparency System (FITRS).
The ESMA liquidity assessment for bonds is based on a quarterly assessment of quantitative liquidity criteria, such as the daily average trading activity (trades and notional amounts) and number of days traded per quarter.
The quality of ESMAs assessment depends on the data submitted to ESMA, the data received so far, for Q1 2018, is not fully complete for most instruments, according to the authority.
These data completeness and quality issues result in a lower number of liquid instruments identified compared to ESMAs earlier transitional transparency calculations.
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