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ESMA publishes reports on the DLT Pilot Regime

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Published on: 05 October 2023

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LNB News 05/10/2023

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Issue Date: 05 October 2023

Published Date: 05 October 2023

Jurisdiction(s): United Kingdom and Ireland

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The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published two reports on the Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) Pilot Regime: a study on extraction of transaction data and a study on how financial instrument transactions are registered in various DLTs. The DLT Pilot Regime entered into force on 23 June 2022 and aims to foster innovation in the EU’s capital markets sector. It allows eligible firms to operate DLT market infrastructures to be used for trading and settlement purposes.

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