The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s financial markets regulator and supervisor, has withdrawn the credit rating agency (CRA) registration of Scope Hamburg GmbH at the express request of the CRA.
The withdrawal decisions follow the official notifications to ESMA by Scope Hamburg GmbH on 7 February 2023 of its intention to renounce the specific registrations under the conditions set out in Article 20(1)(a) of the CRA Regulation (CRAR).