ESMA publishes complementary annual transparency calculations

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s securities markets regulator, has today started to make available the results of the annual transparency calculations for equity and equity-like instruments. This was previously communicated by ESMA on 1 March and supplemented on 31 March.

This publication includes 1,163 equity and equity-like instruments, of which 331 liquid shares:

The transparency parameters published today 8 April should apply no later than 14 April.

ESMA’s annual transparency calculations are based on the data provided to Financial Instruments Transparency System (FITRS) by trading venues and approved publication arrangements in relation to the calendar year 2021.

This additional list of assessed equity and equity-like instruments will be available through ESMA’s FITRS in the XML files with publication date from 8 April 2022 (here) and through the Register web interface (here).

The transparency requirements based on the additional results of the annual transparency calculations published today, 8 April 2022, for equity and equity-like instruments will apply from no later than 14 April 2022 until 31 March 2023. From 1 April 2023 the next annual transparency calculations for equity and equity-like instruments will become applicable.