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Organized Trading facilities OTFs
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An OTF must offer trading in financial instruments (bonds, structured finance products, emission allowances or derivatives); it may additionally offer physically settled REMIT wholesale energy contracts, but genuine trading in financial instruments must take place and not be a pretext for trading almost only REMIT carve-out contracts.
Details
| Reference | ESMA_QA_1654 |
|---|---|
| Issuer | ESMA |
| Published | 3 Oct 2017 |
| Answered | 3 Oct 2017 |
| Submitted | 3 Oct 2017 |
| ESMA topics | Multilateral and bilateral systems |
| Earlier Q&A document | ESMA 70-872942901-38 MiFID II MiFIR market structures Q&A, Q&A 5.22 |
Provisions it relates to
- Article 4 MiFID II · DefinitionsInferred · 80%
- MiFID II (whole act)Explicit reference