Brexit catch up: summary of news in Q1 2021
This final “catch up” post summarises some of the developments and announcements related to Brexit since the transitional period ended on the 31st December 2021, with a focus on the…
Updated EMIR Q+A – Answers added re intra group reporting exemption
Last week, ESMA issued an updated version of the EMIR Questions and Answers document, which can be found here. Two answers were added, which relate to the use of the…
Anti abuse news – more cases and investigations
As part of our catch up, this post highlights some of the anti-abuse news of interest in recent weeks. Mark Steward, Executive Director of Enforcement and Market Oversight at the…
We are back – ESMA issues statement regarding application of existing MIFID II position limits rules
This blog is back after an unexpected break. We are hoping to issue more "catch up" posts over the coming days. Last week, ESMA issued this statement, which asks EU…
MIFID II “Quick Fix” published in the Official Journal
The final text of the MIFID II “Quick Fix” set of changes as adopted by the European Parliament recently has been published in the Official Journal of the European Union.…
Anti abuse news – Investigations, spikes and fines
The past weeks have seen a great deal of news around possible market manipulations, price spikes and other potentially abusive activity. Here we summarise a few of interest: The recent…
European Parliament adopts MIFID II changes
The European Parliament yesterday adopted a series of changes to MIFID II as part of the "quick fix" package aimed at reducing the burden of the rules in some respects(see…
REMIT Quarterly and EMIR Q+A
The following documents have been released recently: The latest REMIT Quarterly (here) – The newsletter summarises REMIT announcements over the past weeks. Updated EMIR Q+A (here) – With one updated…
Market abuse update
While there has not been a large fine levied so far in 2021, a few anti abuse pieces of news are of note: The UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has…
SFTR reporting starts for NFCs
Reporting under the Securities Financing Transaction Reporting regulation (SFTR) started yesterday for Non Financial Counterparties (see here). The scope of SFTR includes “commodities lending”, which could be taken to include…
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