Working Group
Financial Markets

About

The Working Group Financial Markets (WG FM) was created in 2010 with the aim of supporting efficient, liquid, secure and transparent European wholesale energy markets. WG FM works to promote the competitiveness of European energy markets and ensure that the European financial services framework appropriately addresses the specific characteristics of the energy commodity derivatives markets and their participants.

WG FM advocates for efficient, liquid, secure and transparent wholesale energy derivatives markets that allow for proper price risk-management and contribute to the energy transition in Europe. The group is vocal in its support of a coherent regulatory framework that encourages market participants to trade on reliable, transparent exchanges.

Over the years, WG FM has focused on areas within European financial services regulation, such as MiFID II / MiFIR, EMIR, MAR, the Benchmark Regulation and others.

Head of Working Group

Jethro van Hardeveld has over fifteen years of experience in European regulatory policy and commodity derivatives markets. He has been deeply involved in contributing to discussions on MiFID/R, EMIR, BMR and REMIT. He is an active member of the Consultative Working Group of the ESMA Commodity Derivatives Task Force and the ACER Expert Group on Wholesale Energy Market Integrity and Transparency.