Brexit update: EMIR, MiFID, REMIT and more
Last week, FISMA of the European Commission updated two documents relating to Brexit, targeted at firms in the EU: "Markets in Financial Instruments" (here) – Includes a reminder that at…
Last week, FISMA of the European Commission updated two documents relating to Brexit, targeted at firms in the EU: "Markets in Financial Instruments" (here) – Includes a reminder that at…
On Friday, ESMA published an update of the opinion document for market sizes to be used as part of the ancillary activity test, adding estimated market sizes for the year…
ESMA yesterday published an updated version of the EMIR Questions and Answers document, which can be found here. The updated question is TR11b on page 85 and relates to the…
ACER yesterday issued updates to several key documents relating to REMIT. These are: Trade Reporting User Manual (TRUM) version 4.0 (here) - Amalgamates many of the answers found in the…
On Tuesday 23rd June Rishi Sunak, the UK's Chancellor of the Exchequer, issued this statement providing updates on how Financial Services regulations will be applied in the UK once the…
Last week the CFTC announced here that a settlement has been reached with Deutsche Bank for two enforcement matters relating to spoofing and reporting. The reporting issue is covered by…
Last week, on 17th June, the next stage of the EMIR "REFIT" programme came into effect (see here for the original post). This was the requirement that Financial Counterparties (FC)…
There has been a great deal of anti abuse activity taking place since this blog "took a break" a few weeks ago. Some of the news includes the following: ACER…
The UK’s Department of Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has announced that a standalone Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) will run in the UK after Brexit, replacing the European ETS…
Last week ESMA updated the opinion document on determining third-country trading venues for the purpose of position limits under MiFID II. The new document can be found here. The document…