The European Commission has adopted a decision that recognises certain US venues as "equivalent" in regulatory terms with EU law. The decision document can be found here. The decision recognises…
The past years have seen many regulatory initiatives being rolled out globally and in the EU. These include several financial regulatory regimes which have each been implemented within a relatively…
There is now less than a month to go until MiFID II starts, on 3rd January 2018. Investment Firms who will have to comply with many parts of the rules,…
BaFin has published "indicative" position limits for certain contracts on EEX, which can be found both here on the BaFin web site and also here on the EEX web site.…
The UK's Financial Conduct Authority has updated the list of position limits under MiFID II which will apply to commodity derivatives contracts traded on venues under their jurisdiction. The list…
ESMA has approved NEX Abide Financial's application to run an EMIR Trade Repository. The notice from ESMA can be found here. This takes the number of approved TRs to 8,…
The UK's Financial Conduct Authority has published this guide to the implementation of MiFID II, and MiFIR, in the UK. It examines the various parts of the rules, the documents…
ESMA has updated the questions and answers document related to EMIR, which can be found here. The new version of the document makes some updates to the sections on trade…
The start of MiFID II on 3rd January increases the scope of the Market Abuse Regulation, which itself started on 3rd July 2016 (see here). Financial instruments executed on Organised…
Both ACER and the UK's FCA have recently issued newsletters: ACER has issued the latest REMIT "quarterly" document, which can be found here. It summarises the various announcements relating to…