ESMA Consultation on C6 and C7
ESMA today launched a consultation on the application of MiFID Annex I sections C6 and C7. This is a very important question for the energy and commodities industry, as the…
The Trade Reporting mess
See this post on RegTech FS for a summary of a few recent reports on how well trade reporting is going under EMIR and the other regulation that arose from…
FSB feasibility study on global trade repository
The Financial Stability Board (FSB) have published this report on approaches to creating a form of global trade repository, that would feed from the many that have been set up worldwide…
Report on the transposition of REMIT into law across the member states
The CEER yesterday published this report on how well the various member states are doing in putting REMIT into law. Each country was to put REMIT into law by June…
BIS Report on Developments in Collateral Services
The Bank of International Settlements ("BIS", who are also responsible for the "Basle" rules), have just issued this paper entitled "Developments in collateral management services". Of particular interest to those in…
Article on Portfolio Compression
See here for the next installment of the set of articles on Portfolio Compression by Diana Higgins, on The OTC Space.
Cross border issues on forthcoming uncleared derivatives rules
See this interesting article on the Reuters web site, which talks about potential issues between Asian and European regulators, on the handing of third country trades under the forthcoming rules…
IOSCO Report on commodity derivatives market supervision
IOSCO (International Organisation of Securities Commissions) have just issued this report that updates its 2012 on how global commodities derivatives markets supervision regimes conform to their principals. In short, the report…
EMR: Report on credit and collateral issues in the GB energy market
See here for a report by Cornwall Energy written for DECC on the credit and collateral issues in the Great Britain energy market and how they are impacted by the…
FCA Implementation Review for Energy Companies
The Financial Conduct Authority last week published this implementation review of how energy and oil companies are doing with their EMIR Implementations. Much of the focus is on threshold calculation…