Monday sees the rolling out of the ESMA “level 1 validations”. This is a new set of constraints on the fields that must be sent to Trade Repositories under EMIR.…
Yesterday (26th November) saw a technical meeting (agenda here) about the proposed schemas and data to be sent to ACER as part of REMIT data reporting. The meeting was held in…
Last week saw the FCA fining 5 banks £1.1bn for the manipulation of indices covering the FX market. Once again, regulators are showing that they will not tolerate market abuse,…
The G20 meeting in Brisbane has led to this communique being issued. In it we see that the G20's view is that many reforms that were required to address issues…
ACER have launched a consultation on the list of Organised Market Places(OMPs) that will be included in the first phase of REMIT reporting currently set to go live next September/October. The…
Yesterday ESMA launched a public consultation reviewing trade reporting under EMIR. The document can be found here. The consultation follows many issues and confusion around EMIR reporting, which has been…
See this article in the Global Banking and Finance Review, by James Brown of Allegro, about the possible impact that MiFID II could have on the commodities market. The message of…
See here for the final article in the three part series by Diana Higgins on the benefits of Portfolio Compression from a credit perspective. The article appears on The OTC Space.…
As announced here, the latest version of the REMIT Implementing Act has finally been published to the DG Energy web site. It is still marked as "Draft". The main change…
The latest version of the Implementing Act of REMIT data reporting has finally been posted on the commitology web site and can be found here. Analysis to follow.