The regulatory burden
See here for an article on the Bloomberg website reporting on a speech made by Lord Hill about the possible reduction of new regulatory initiatives affecting the banking industry, following…
Final text of Benchmark Regulation published
The European Parliament have published the final text of the Benchmark Regulation, which can be found here. The rules are intended to further regulate the management of benchmarks, in addition to the…
TRUM updated with transportation contract changes
ACER have issued a new version of the REMIT Trade Reporting User Manual (TRUM), version 2.2, which can be found here. The primary change appears to be instructions on how…
Energy Trading Regulation blog, ICIS Regulation Portal collaboration
The Energy Trading Regulation blog and ICIS Regulation Portal are excited to announce they will collaborate to provide coverage and analysis of regulation that affects energy trading in Europe. Both sides…
Post on MAR and surveillance
There are less than 2 months to go until the Market Abuse Regulation(MAR) goes into effect, on the 3rd July 2016. MAR contains several anti abuse provisions against the use of inside…
Rocket issue 6 available for download
The latest version of Rocket, the magazine of The OTC Space, is now available for download from here. The magazine primarily covers the world of clearing, which is becoming more…
“Quick fix” agreed for MiFID II
An agreement has been reached between the European Parliament's negotiating team and member state representative on how to effect the delay to MiFID II, according to this post on the…
ESMA issues new position limits and transparency RTS proposal
ESMA have issued a new draft of MiFID II RTS 21 on position limits, as well as RTS 2 on non equity transparency. This follows the sending back of three…
Updated REMIT Q+A published
ACER have updated their Questions and Answers document on REMIT which can be found here. There are three new answers and one updated one: If a holding owns several market participants but is…