FCA sets position limits
Yesterday the UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published a list of position limits under MiFID II on their position limits page, which can be found here. The list comprises many…
ESMA publishes more position limits and master list
ESMA yesterday published nine opinions on position limits proposed by the UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). These set the initial limits on those contracts which relate to metals and agricultural…
Merrill Lynch fined £34.5m for failing to report ETDs under EMIR
It has been announced today that Merrill Lynch International has been fined £34,524,000 by the UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) for failing to report Exchange Traded Derivative (ETD) transactions under EMIR…
Finfrag delay for smaller Swiss entities
Finma, the Swiss financial regulator, has announced that the start of reporting for the smallest non financial entities caught by the Financial Markets Infrastructure Act (also known as "Finfrag") will…
FCA opens hedge exemption applications and publishes more position limit information
The UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has opened the "Connect" system which allows Non Financial Entities to apply for hedge exemptions from the MiFID II position limits regime, for contracts…
MiFID II start and transposition
With less than three months to go until the start of MiFID II, on 3rd January 2018, there are many stories of struggles to be ready. Never the less, yesterday EU…
Progress on EU-US recognition
The European Commission and the CFTC moved closer to mutual recognition of rules, following a meeting held last week. The movement has been on two fronts: Trading platform recognition, which…
Europex comments on the EMIR review
Europex has issued this set of comments on the legislative proposal issued by the European Commission earlier this year (see here) as part of the EMIR review. The proposal contains…
Updated validations for the new EMIR RTS
Last week ESMA updated the validations document to be used as part of the upcoming changes to EMIR. The updated document can be found here. The changes relate to the collateral…
LEI issues under EMIR and MiFID II
Both the updated reporting requirements under EMIR (see here) and MiFID II will require transactions to be reported, using the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) to specify the parties to a…
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