The European Commission has adopted a decision that recognises certain US venues as “equivalent” in regulatory terms with EU law. The decision document can be found here. The decision recognises that SEFs (Swap Execution Facilities) and DCMs (Designated Contract Markets) fulfil the 4 conditions found in MiFIR Article 28(4) and are therefore recognised as equivalent from the perspective of the trading obligation, which requires investment firms to execute the more liquid financial instruments on either an EU or equivalent trading venue.
This article on the Bloomberg web site also examines this issue.
About avivhandler
Aviv is the Managing Director of ETR Advisory, a niche consultancy focused on the regulation of the commodity, energy and financial markets.
He has more than 23 years of experience in the financial, energy and commodity markets, covering regulatory compliance, credit, risk and financial technology.
Prior to founding ETR, he was Partner at SunGard Global Services, where he built a Centre of Excellence in European Energy and Commodity Regulation.
Before that, he founded Coherence, a consulting firm specializing in credit risk in commodity and energy trading as well as software product management. The credit practice ultimately became part of Sirius Solutions, where he was the Managing Director of Europe. He has also held management roles at KWI and Iris Financial, among other organizations.
Mr. Handler holds a degree in computer science from Imperial College, University of London.
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