ESMA yesterday issued several documents, including: MAR Q+A (here) - this update of the questions and answers document adds details on managers transactions and investment recommendations, which will primarily be…
The energy and commodity markets have for several months been awaiting the finalised version of Regulatory Technical Standards(RTS) 20 and 21, which provide rules for the calculations around the Ancillary…
The European Commission have adopted changes to the EMIR reporting standards. The changes to the RTS (Regulatory Technical Standard) can be found here, and the new list of fields here.…
Last week ESMA published a document regarding inside information relating to commodity derivatives under MAR, which defines which data is “reasonably expected to be disclosed or required to be disclosed…
The UK's FCA have published these minutes from their MiFID II round table. There are several notes on commodity derivatives, including a reminder of the contents in the second consultation…
ESMA have issued a detailed guidance document on the transaction reporting, order record keeping and clock synchronisation rules, which can be found here.An accompanying final report can be found here.…
Last Friday 7th October saw the one year anniversary of the first data collection under REMIT. From 7th October 2015, all data arising from activity on an Organised Market Place…
ESMA have issued a final report which includes draft MAR guidelines on information relating to commodity derivatives markets or relates spot markets for the purpose of the definition of inside information.…
Following investigations earlier this year into a possible breach of REMIT in Italy due to the illegitimate withholding of generation, this article has been published on the ICIS web site.…
The Swiss FMIA("Finfrag") regulation will was passed into law in January 2016 and will start to take effect in the coming months. The rules are broadly a Swiss version of EMIR, and amongst…