Article 2 1

(a)

credit institutions;

(b)

payment institutions, including payment institutions exempted pursuant to Directive (EU) 2015/2366;

(c)

account information service providers;

(d)

electronic money institutions, including electronic money institutions exempted pursuant to Directive 2009/110/EC;

(e)

investment firms;

(f)

crypto-asset service providers as authorised under a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on markets in crypto-assets, and amending Regulations (EU) No 1093/2010 and (EU) No 1095/2010 and Directives 2013/36/EU and (EU) 2019/1937 (‘the Regulation on markets in crypto-assets’) and issuers of asset-referenced tokens;

(g)

central securities depositories;

(h)

central counterparties;

(i)

trading venues;

(j)

trade repositories;

(k)

managers of alternative investment funds;

(l)

management companies;

(m)

data reporting service providers;

(n)

insurance and reinsurance undertakings;

(o)

insurance intermediaries, reinsurance intermediaries and ancillary insurance intermediaries;

(p)

institutions for occupational retirement provision;

(q)

credit rating agencies;

(r)

administrators of critical benchmarks;

(s)

crowdfunding service providers;

(t)

securitisation repositories;

(u)

ICT third-party service providers.