ESMA opens EMIR consultations
ESMA opened two consultations relating to EMIR last week: Technical standards on reporting, data quality, data access and registration of Trade Repositories under EMIR REFIT (here). Report on post trade…
Market abuse updates – Corona related and otherwise
There have been several reports around the selling of stocks by Senator Richard Burr, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee as well as Senator Sen. Kelly Loeffler and others.…
FCA’s Call for Input on accessing and using wholesale data
Last week the UK's Financial Conduct Authority(FCA) released this Call for Input(CFI) on "Accessing and using wholesale data". The CFI covers: Trading data Benchmarks Market data vendor services The CFI…
ESMA indicates SFTR leeway and other Corona news
ESMA has today issued this statement and this press release, asking NCAs to "not prioritise supervisory actions" with regards to the upcoming start of reporting under SFTR. The first start…
Covid-19 announcements
The impact of the Covid-19/Corona virus is being very widely felt. Several regulators have made announcements that in some way relate to the regulations covered by this blog. These include:…
ESMA report – Coal and oil derivatives/C6
Earlier this week, ESMA published this report, which was submitted to the European Commission a few weeks ago. It provides a recommendation as to whether to extend the exemption for…
Anti abuse forum deadline near – FCA STOR statistics
There is only one week to go until the open anti-abuse forum is to be held in London, on 9th March 2020. Registration is available here and will close within…