The FCA’s Regtech Call for Input
The UK's Financial Conduct Authority yesterday issued a "call for input" on "Using technology to achieve smarter regulatory reporting", which can be found here. The paper describes a "Techsprint" which…
The UK's Financial Conduct Authority yesterday issued a "call for input" on "Using technology to achieve smarter regulatory reporting", which can be found here. The paper describes a "Techsprint" which…
There have been many announcements and stories around the regulatory side of blockchain use since our last post (see here): ICOs Finma, the financial regulator of Switzerland has issued these…
ACER has issued the latest "REMIT Quarterly", covering Q4 2017, which can be found here. It covers a few interesting recent aspects of REMIT: 21 new cases were opened in…
We are now in week 6 of MiFID II. Although the announcements have settled down, we now see a few pieces of news since our last post that point to…
The UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) yesterday issued this report on "Algorithmic Trading Compliance in Wholesale markets. It reviews the requirements of MiFID II, MAR and local legislation for those…
While the political stances of both the UK and the EU are widely reported (for example here on Sky News), practical considerations for market participants becomes ever more important as…
MiFID II has been in place for over a month. While the rules are "settling in", there have been various developments since our last post (see here). On the position…
Earlier this week, ESMA released an updated questions and answers document on EMIR, which can be found here. It contains one new set of answers on page 121 on how…
News on crypto currencies, and other applications of distributed ledger technology, continues to arrive, following our last post here: On the crypto currency side of things, Nasdaq is now considering…
There has been more activity this week on the anti abuse side of things, following Monday's post here on recent fines. Ofgem, the National Regulatory Authority for the GB energy…