15/02/23 (Agence Europe) – The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has identified some areas for improvement in the national supervision of Central Securities Depositories (CSDs) providing cross-border services, in a first peer review report published on Wednesday 15 February. National competent authorities (NCA) generally have satisfactory initial authorisation processes in place, but ESMA believes that there is room for improvement in some NCAs’ approval processes during...