ESMA warns firms amid 'surge in trading by retail clients'

Investment firms face "even greater duties"

Mike Sheen
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Pan-European regulator ESMA has warned investment firms they face "even greater duties" as waves of retail investors have flooded into the market since the start of the year at a time of heightened uncertainty.

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