Broker fined for MAR breach
The UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined a broker group 4,775,200 GBP, for breaches of the Market Abuse Regulation Article 16(2), which requires "Professional Persons Arranging or Executing Transactions"…
The UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined a broker group 4,775,200 GBP, for breaches of the Market Abuse Regulation Article 16(2), which requires "Professional Persons Arranging or Executing Transactions"…
EWRC, the National Regulatory Authority of Bulgaria, has announced that six market participants have been fined a total of 1.258m Levs (641k Euros) for breaches of REMIT Article 5, the…
Yesterday an amending regulation was published in the Official Journal of the European Union changing the EMIR clearing threshold for commodity derivatives to 4bn EUR from 3bn EUR. It can…
ACER has today announced significant updates to the documentation around REMIT reporting including: A new version of the Transaction Reporting User Manual (TRUM version 5.1) - here Updated versions of…
ACER has yesterday released the latest version of the REMIT Quarterly newsletter, which can be found here. The quarterly covers many of the "usual" statistics related to reporting. In addition,…
There has been a great deal of activity in the area of market interventions (see here) . The European Commission DG Energy has proposed this regulation which amongst other things:…
ISDA has written this open letter to the European Commission, ESMA and others in relation to the different reviews taking place with respect to EMIR. There are 12 recommendations, which…
In what is proving to be a "big news" day, the FCA has announced a fine levied against a broker for various failings, including failing to carry out "effective monitoring"…
The significant changes to EMIR reporting that have been in discussion for quite some time (see here) will apply in the EU from the 29th April 2024, following the publication…
The last weeks have seen a set of fines issued in the US: Several banks were fined a total of approximately $1.8bn in total for improper use of messaging apps.…