Oct. 29, 2020
The European Securities and
Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s securities markets regulator, has updated
the list it maintains of third-country trading venues in the context of the
opinions on post-trade transparency and position limits under MiFID II and MiFIR.
Both IPSX Prime and IPSX Wholesale received a positive assessment and are
included in the list of trading venues in relation to post-trade transparency.
This means that if an EU investment
firm enters into a transaction in a security admitted to either IPSX venue,
that firm will not have to publish those trades on an EU APA (Approved
Publication Arrangement). This will reduce the cost and administration that an
EU investment firm will incur if entering into trades in stocks admitted to either
IPSX Prime or Wholesale.
Alan
Ramsay, Chief Executive at IPSX UK said: “The publication of the ESMA third-country list
is very good news for IPSX as it means brokers across the EU can trade in IPSX
securities with no additional requirement to produce a post-trade report. This
will reduce costs and make it easier for trades to be actioned on both of our
markets. This will help encourage European investors to invest in IPSX
securities post BREXIT and we welcome the publication of the ESMA list.”
IPSX Wholesale is a market exclusively for institutional and professional investors.