ESMA updates Q&AS on MiFID II investor protection

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU's securities markets regulator, has today updated its Questions and Answers on the implementation of investor protection topics under the Market in Financial Instruments Directive and Regulation (MiFID II/ MiFIR).

The Q&As on MiFID II and MiFIR investor protection and intermediaries’ topics includes a new answer on ‘MiFID inducements’.

More specifically, the new Q&A provides clarification on the application of the MiFID definition of “acceptable minor non-...