Less than a week to go until MAR
The Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) will be in effect from July 3rd 2016, less than a week from today. From that date, the use of inside information, and actual and…
Brexit – possible impact
Last night the UK population voted to leave the European Union, by a narrow margin. Such an exit will clearly have regulatory implications for energy and commodity market participants who…
RRM approvals continue
While it has now been several weeks since off venue REMIT reporting commenced, RRM approvals continue. The list published by ACER, which can be found here, continues to grow despite…
4th REMIT guidance issued – the focus on monitoring continues
ACER have today issued the 4th version of their guidance on REMIT which can be found here. The non binding guidance provides ACER's view on how many aspects of REMIT are…
ETR and Entrima to re run Effective Monitoring course
Following a successful delivery of a course on effective monitoring in preparation for MAR, run on 10th June, ETR Advisory and Entrima will repeat the course in London on July 11th.…
European Council adopts MiFID delay
The European Council have adopted the delay by one year of MiFID II and MiFIR, the latest step in formalising the move of the start date from 3 January 2017…
REMIT data quality
See here for a post from Tilo Zimmerman of Ponton on LinkedIn on the data quality of REMIT data. It is now over 2 months since off venue reporting commenced,…
17th REMIT Q+A published – more sanctions to come?
ACER have published an updated version of the REMIT Questions and Answers document, with two new entries. The document can be found here. The first of the new entries is…
Post about MAR and MIFID
See here for a post on finextra by Kate Koval of GFT about data collection under MIFID II and how it will influence MAR. The MAR rules start on July 3rd…
MiFID II delay finalised
The European Parliament has finalised the delay of a year to the start of MiFID II, from 3 January 2017 to 3 January 2018, as announced in this press release. The Parliament voted by…