Compliance Services for Financial Market Infrastructures
FMIs are where systemic risk concentrates, and international oversight treats them accordingly. ABM Global Compliance supports payment systems, central counterparties, securities depositories, and trade repositories with PFMI alignment, DORA operational resilience, recovery and wind-down planning, and oversight readiness, keeping systemically important market infrastructure fully aligned with the central banks and authorities watching it closest.
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Principles Written for Systemic Importance
Financial market infrastructures answer to a distinct standard: the CPMI-IOSCO Principles for Financial Market Infrastructures, covering governance, credit and liquidity risk, settlement finality, default management, and operational reliability. Overseers assess FMIs against these principles directly, and disclosure frameworks require published self-assessments that markets and authorities both read at every stage.
European law layers regime-specific requirements on top: EMIR for CCPs, CSDR for depositories, settlement finality rules, and DORA’s operational resilience obligations that bite hardest on infrastructure. Recovery and orderly wind-down planning now sit alongside daily your compliance, because authorities expect systemically important entities to plan for their own distress credibly.
How We Support Market Infrastructures
Our services address infrastructure obligations at both levels: PFMI self-assessments and disclosure frameworks, gap remediation, EMIR and CSDR regime compliance, DORA resilience frameworks and incident procedures, recovery and wind-down planning, governance design, and oversight relationship support through assessments and reviews.
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Why FMIs Across Europe Choose ABM
Principles Depth
PFMI requirements and oversight expectations handled with infrastructure-grade precision at every stage.
Resilience Focus
DORA frameworks and incident readiness built for systemically important operations every time.
Oversight Fluency
Self-assessments and authority engagement prepared to the standard overseers expect every time.
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FMI Compliance Questions Answered
What are the PFMI principles?
The CPMI-IOSCO Principles for Financial Market Infrastructures, twenty-four international standards covering governance, risk management, settlement, default handling, and operational reliability for systemic infrastructure.
Who oversees FMIs in Europe?
Central banks and securities regulators share oversight depending on infrastructure type, with ESMA and the ECB holding direct roles for CCPs and systemically important systems.
What disclosure must FMIs publish?
The PFMI disclosure framework requires published self-assessments describing how each principle is met, updated after material changes and reviewed by authorities every time.
What does FMI recovery planning involve?
Credible plans for surviving extreme losses or liquidity shortfalls, including loss allocation tools and service continuity, assessed by authorities for genuine usability.
Does DORA apply to market infrastructures?
Yes, intensively. FMIs face DORA’s ICT risk, incident reporting, and testing requirements, with expectations scaled to their systemic importance at every stage.