Brexit developments
While Brexit has been making general political headlines (for example see The Telegraph here), more sector specific issues are of key importance, if planning for March 2019 is to be…
While Brexit has been making general political headlines (for example see The Telegraph here), more sector specific issues are of key importance, if planning for March 2019 is to be…
Articles 35 and 36 of MiFIR and the associated regulatory Technical Standards (RTS 15) and Delegated Act legislate for open access between trading venues and CCPs so that market participants…
With just over 3 and a half months until the start of MiFID II, there is a great deal for firms to do, especially those who are Investment Firms. Yesterday…
On 1st November 2017 the fields and formats with which trades must be reported under EMIR will change (see here). This is the third set of changes to be made…
The Global Data Protection Regulation applies from May 2018 and contains many requirements relating to the personal data. Controllers and processors of data in scope must comply with the rules…
ESMA has released an updated Questions and Answers document on the Market Abuse Regulation, which can be found here. The document contains several updates, including an update to the clarification…
The UK's Financial Conduct Authority has published a position limits page, which lists the contracts on which a "bespoke" limit will be set before 3rd January 2018, under the MiFID…
The variation margin requirements of the uncleared margin rules were to start globally on 1st March. However due to a backlog in the required "re-papering", most jurisdictions signalled that the…
ESMA has issued "portability guidelines" for EMIR Trade Repositories(TR), to be followed when data is to be transferred from one TR to another. This could occur if a market participant…
The last few days has seen a few publications on the subject of Brexit. The UK's Department of Exiting the EU has published several position papers over the past few…