ETR Advisory Notes and Thoughts on ESMA Q’s and A’s
ETR Advisory have written some notes and thoughts on the Questions and Answers written by ESMA last week. There are some particularly scary items for example: UTIs will need to…
TriOptima’s new Verification and Portfolio Rec service linked to DTCC
See here from TriOptima's press release about their new service which offers verification and Portfolio Reconciliation services linked to the DTCC repositories.
Some thoughts on TR/SDR Standardisation
See here for Gordon Allott of Broadpeak's thoughts on standardisation of data standards and the experiences of Dodd Frank. He is saying that the variety of flavours of standard in…
ESMA Publishes a Second EMIR FAQ
See the new ESMA EMIR FAQ, kindly downloaded by The OTC Space since the ESMA link is broken. I will publish thoughts tomorrow.
The week that was (aka Dazzling Derivatives; issue of 4.6.2013)
See the weekly summary of derivatives developments (EMIR and others) from The OTC Space.
Energy Bill Passes Report Stage
The UK Energy Bill has now passed the report stage, with the opposition proposed amendment to set the 2030 carbon target in 2014 failing. The next stage is for it…
Energy Bill Rebels Fail
The second day of the energy bill reading in parliament was today. Full report links tomorrow. But note that the opposition failed in their amendment to amend the bill to…
Interesting comment on cross border issues
There is an interesting article here on the ISDA website about some comments on the importance of ensuring that rules in different locations are harmonised.