LEI use – speech by ESMA
Yesterday Verena Ross, ESMA Executive Director gave this speech on the use of Legal Entity Identifiers(LEI), in particular with reference to MiFID II. This follows the announcement last week that LEIs…
Yesterday Verena Ross, ESMA Executive Director gave this speech on the use of Legal Entity Identifiers(LEI), in particular with reference to MiFID II. This follows the announcement last week that LEIs…
The European Commission DG FISMA has provided this written answer to ESMA on the outstanding question of whether the market size test portion of the Ancillary Activity test must be…
ESMA has announced that the requirement for Investment Firms to report transactions only using Legal Entity Identifiers (LEI) will commence on the 3rd July, following a 6 month grace period…
JP Morgan has settled with the CFTC for $65m for the attempted manipulation of the ISDAFIX benchmark. The press release can be found here and the order here. The fine relates…
The European Parliament has agreed in a plenary session to the proposed changes to EMIR as part of the REFIT process, passed by the ECON committee a few weeks ago…
The European Council yesterday agreed its position to update and increase the role of the Agency for the Coordination of Energy Regulators (ACER), who are, amongst other things, responsible for…
The headline level story around Brexit in the UK is around the vote in the UK Parliament next week on the 15 amendments to the "Brexit Bill" proposed by the…
Yesterday was the 5 month anniversary of the start of MiFID II. In many ways, things have settled down since then, although there have been some developments over the past…
ACER has today published this open letter Inside Information disclosure and the use of Inside Information Platforms. The letter was promised in a previous quarterly newsletter (see here). Different types of…
ESMA has today published an updated Questions and Answers document on EMIR, which can be found here. The updated answers include several on the reporting of derivatives trades, which will…