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Financial Services Regulation and Compliance - Investment Firms August 2025

Asset Management & Investment Funds

Financial Services Regulation and Compliance - Investment Firms August 2025

At European level, ESMA published a new registration guide to promote awareness and enhance the transparency of the assessment criteria and procedures applicable to ESMA’s registration.

Tue 30 Sep 2025

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European

ESMA publishes registration guide

On 14 August 2025, The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published a new registration guide. ESMA is entrusted with direct supervision of financial entities that are essential to the EU’s market infrastructure. This includes credit rating agencies, trade repositories, securitisation repositories, administrators of EU critical benchmarks and third country benchmarks (recognised or endorsed), and certain data reporting services providers. ESMA is responsible for the registration of these entities, and also for the forthcoming additional mandates, such as external reviewers under the EU Green Bond Regulation, ESG rating providers and consolidated tape providers.

The term “registration” covers the various types of application processes (e.g. authorisation, recognition) that an entity needs to follow to be allowed to offer its services in the EU Financial markets. Depending on the applicable regulation, firms providing financial services will need to be either authorised, registered, recognised, certified, or endorsed in the EU with ESMA. The guide seeks to promote awareness and enhance the transparency of the assessment criteria and procedures applicable to ESMA’s registration.

For more information on these topics please contact any member of A&L Goodbody's Asset Management & Investment Funds team.

Date published: 30 September 2025

This publication provides an overview of certain legal and regulatory developments that may be of interest to certain entities. It does not purport to provide analysis of law or legal advice and is strictly for information purposes only.