LEI use – speech by ESMA
Yesterday Verena Ross, ESMA Executive Director gave this speech on the use of Legal Entity Identifiers(LEI), in particular with reference to MiFID II. This follows the announcement last week that LEIs…
European Commission provides answer on Ancillary Activity test
The European Commission DG FISMA has provided this written answer to ESMA on the outstanding question of whether the market size test portion of the Ancillary Activity test must be…
MiFID II update – LEIs and more
ESMA has announced that the requirement for Investment Firms to report transactions only using Legal Entity Identifiers (LEI) will commence on the 3rd July, following a 6 month grace period…
JP Morgan manipulation fine and other anti abuse news
JP Morgan has settled with the CFTC for $65m for the attempted manipulation of the ISDAFIX benchmark. The press release can be found here and the order here. The fine relates…
EMIR changes agreed and news about penalties
The European Parliament has agreed in a plenary session to the proposed changes to EMIR as part of the REFIT process, passed by the ECON committee a few weeks ago…
Possible ACER change in authority, ESMA speech, and a course
The European Council yesterday agreed its position to update and increase the role of the Agency for the Coordination of Energy Regulators (ACER), who are, amongst other things, responsible for…
Brexit update: FIA survey and threats to equivalence
The headline level story around Brexit in the UK is around the vote in the UK Parliament next week on the 15 amendments to the "Brexit Bill" proposed by the…
5 months later, how is MiFID II going?
Yesterday was the 5 month anniversary of the start of MiFID II. In many ways, things have settled down since then, although there have been some developments over the past…