ESMA: Guidelines on outsourcing to cloud service providers (2025)
ESMA has published these guidelines which apply to competent authorities and to (i) depositaries of alternative investment funds referred to in certain articles of AIFMD, where they are not financial entities to which DORA applies, and (ii) depositaries of UCITS referred to in Article 23(2)(c) of the UCITS Directive, where they are not financial entities to which DORA applies. The guidelines have been published in all EU official languages.
Last updated · 13 Mar 2026
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Text of a Q&A session on 25 February 2026 has now been published. Topics include: aspects of EMIR 3 implementation; operational resilience; cloud and AI adoption by CCPs; CCP supervisory colleges, and market adoption of tokenisation.