This Technical Advice provides a background to steps taken so far to reduce reliance on credit ratings by market participants, ESMA’s views in respect of the use of ratings across certain member states, the views of market participants on credit ratings and potential alternative indicators,...

This final report incorporates the feedback received to the consultation on the CDS classes and explains the reasons for reflecting or not the stakeholders roposals to the draft RTS. It follows the same structure as the consultation paper.Section 3 provides explanations on the procedural aspects...