ESMA updates its Benchmarks Register

Securities Markets Regulation

Date: 14 September 2018

On 7th September 2018, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) moved its register for benchmark administrators and third country benchmarks to the ESMA registers database.

Background

In accordance with Article 36 of the Benchmarks Regulation, ESMA started publishing the list of benchmark administrators and third country benchmarks on 3 January 2018 (ESMA’s first working day of 2018). So far, ESMA has published the latest register information on its website daily (ESMA working days) and has made it available for download in csv format.

As of 7 September 2018, the public register interface became available under https://registers.esma.europa.eu/publication/ . As for all ESMA registers, the portal offers machine-to-machine services to large scale organisations, including a set of web services for retrieval of data maintained in ESMA Registers repositories. For more information, please refer to https://registers.esma.europa.eu/publication/helpApp