ESMA issues MAR Q+A – with an important answer
ESMA yesterday issued a Questions and Answers document on the Market Abuse Regulation (MAR), which is effective from the 3rd July 2016. It can be found here. There is only…
Ancillary Activity test RTS 20 – ESMA responds with “open” draft
ESMA have released a new draft of MiFID II 's Regulatory Technical Standard (RTS) on the Ancillary Activity test, RTS 20, announcing it in this press release. This follows the "sending…
ETR Advisory and Entrima to run MAR readiness course
ETR Advisory and Entrima have announced a MAR readiness course to be run in Amsterdam on 10th June. With only a few weeks to go until the 3rd July deadline,…
European Council adopts text of Benchmark Regulation
The European Council have adopted the text of the Benchmark Regulation, which is another step towards it being published in the European Journal. It goes info effect 18 months later.…
Minutes of FCA MiFID II Trade Association Roundtable
The UK's Financial Conduct Authority have published the minutes of the last Trade Association Round Table held on 25th April. They may be found here. Several parts of the minutes…
Summaries of MAR
The Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) and MAD II come into effect on the 3rd July, which is 6 weeks away. From that date, the provisions of the original Market Abuse…
European Council confirms MiFID II delay
The European Council has issued this press release confirming agreement with the European Parliament to the one year delay to the start of MiFID II, from 3 January 2017 to 3 January 2018.…
Consideration given to EMIR one sided reporting
See here for an article on the Reuters website which reports on a speech given by Lord Hill suggesting that consideration may be given to moving EMIR reporting to one…
Delay to application of CRR own funds requirement – provisional text published
The European Parliament has published provisional text to implement a further delay in the application of the own funds and large exposures requirements of the Capital Requirements regulation (CRR) to Commodity…
The impact of MiFID II on metals trading
Two weeks after the updated Regulatory Technical Standard (RTS) number 21 on position limits was published by ESMA, Lord Farmer has given a speech in relation to "Brexit" (the potential…