ESMA today launched a public consultation of the risk management techniques to be applied to non cleared OTC derivatives under EMIR. The focus is on the mandatory use of initial margin…
See here for a quick summary of MiFID II from SJ Berwin. While it points out that many carve outs for commodities traders will remain (although expect this to be…
Our notes on the open public workshop held by ACER in Ljubljana last week on the 3rd April can be found here.There were a few surprises, in particular on back…
Today saw the publication of an update to the European Commodity Market Regulation report published by ETR Advisory and ComTech Advisory.The updated report can be downloaded from here.
ESMA have published their 2014 work plan for supervising trade repositories, which can be downloaded here.In it they talk of their general investigatory plans. But they also talk of the…
ACER today released a final draft of the REMIT Trade Reporting user Manual (TRUM). This draft covers "standard" trade fields and order information, which is likely to line up with the…
See here for a post on Finextra by Magnus Alquist about how to prepare for MAD II/MAR. (The new version of the Market Abuse Directive)For those in the energy industry,…
Scott O Malia, the commissioner of the CFTC recently talked of how they are still unable to process and analyse the data they have received under Dodd Frank trade reporting. A…
The consultations and drafting of the many technical standards under MiFID is now getting under way and will be in full swing over the summer, as can be seen in…
See here for Diana Higgins's post on The OTC Space explaining the benefits of Portfolio Compression. It is the first post in a series that should make for interesting reading.