REMIT and MAR in Italy
Rosaria Arancio of Macchi di Cellere Gangemi speaks on this SoundCloud recording about the implementation of REMIT in Italy, including some commentary on investigations in Italy over the last months…
“Registration agents” to help clients obtain LEIs
MiFID II requires that investment firms provide reports which use Legal Entity Identifiers (LEI) as codes for counterparties. At this stage, many counterparties have not yet obtained LEIs, which will…
Final report on SFTR issued by ESMA
ESMA have issued a final report on the Securities Finance Transaction Reporting rules, which can be found here. The associated press release is here. SFTR will require all market participants to…
Updated Position Limits Q+A issued by ESMA
ESMA yesterday issued a number of updated Questions and Answers documents relating to MiFID II, including one on Commodity Derivatives, which can be found here. Links to the other Q+As,…
New EMIR Q+As and Validations
ESMA has issued an updated Questions and Answers document relating to EMIR, which can be found here. In addition to updating a specific question on backloading , many of the…
MiFID II and MiFIR documents published in the Official Journal
Many of the Technical Standards around MiFID II and MiFIR have now been published in the Official Journal of the European Union, effectively completing the legislative process. These include RTS…
“Finfrag” dates set by FINMA with two trade repositories approved
FINMA, the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority has approved both the Six Trade Repository and also REGIS-TR under the Financial Market Infrastructure Act (FMIA, also known as "Finfrag", short for "Finanzmarktinfrastrukturgesetz").…
The FCA publishes policy statements and starts a further consultation
The UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published a "policy statement" on MiFID II which offers "near final" rules on several topics including some that will be on interest to those…