ESMA issues latest double volume cap data
09 July 2018 Paris
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The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has updated its public register with the latest set of double volume cap (DVC) data under the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II).
The updates include DVC data and calculations for the period of 1 June 2017 to 31 May 2018 as well as updates to already published DVC periods.
The number of new breaches is 70 equities for the 8 percent cap, applicable to all trading venues, and 37 equities for the 4 percent cap, that applies to individual trading venues.
Trading under the waivers for all new instruments in breach of the DVC thresholds should be suspended from 11 July 2018 to 11 January 2019, ESMA stated.
It added that the instruments for, which caps already existed from previous periods, will continue to be suspended.
MiFID II introduced the DVC to limit the amount of dark trading in equities allowed under the reference price waiver and the negotiated transaction waiver. The DVC is calculated per instrument based on the rolling average of trading in that instrument over the last 12 months.
ESMA also highlighted that some trading venues in the meantime have submitted corrected data that affects past DVC publications.
For a limited number of 13 instruments, this means that previously identified breaches of the 8 percent and 4 percent caps prove to be incorrect. For these instruments, the suspensions of trading under the waivers should be lifted, ESMA ruled.
The authority found that as of 6 July, there were a total of 1,024 instruments suspended.
The updates include DVC data and calculations for the period of 1 June 2017 to 31 May 2018 as well as updates to already published DVC periods.
The number of new breaches is 70 equities for the 8 percent cap, applicable to all trading venues, and 37 equities for the 4 percent cap, that applies to individual trading venues.
Trading under the waivers for all new instruments in breach of the DVC thresholds should be suspended from 11 July 2018 to 11 January 2019, ESMA stated.
It added that the instruments for, which caps already existed from previous periods, will continue to be suspended.
MiFID II introduced the DVC to limit the amount of dark trading in equities allowed under the reference price waiver and the negotiated transaction waiver. The DVC is calculated per instrument based on the rolling average of trading in that instrument over the last 12 months.
ESMA also highlighted that some trading venues in the meantime have submitted corrected data that affects past DVC publications.
For a limited number of 13 instruments, this means that previously identified breaches of the 8 percent and 4 percent caps prove to be incorrect. For these instruments, the suspensions of trading under the waivers should be lifted, ESMA ruled.
The authority found that as of 6 July, there were a total of 1,024 instruments suspended.
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