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…
Updated MiFID II commodity derivatives Q+A
ESMA has released an updated MiFID II Questions and Answers document covering commodity derivatives related topics, which can be found here. There are 3 new answers: Ancillary activity Q10 -…
Updated MiFID II Q+As released
With less than 3 months until the start of MiFID II, ESMA has issued updated versions of several questions and answers documents: Market structures (see here) - this includes some…
First “Finfrag” go live
Yesterday was the first day of reporting under the Swiss Financial Markets Infrastructure Act, also known as "Finfrag" (short for Finanzmarktinfrastrukturgesetz). Finfrag is the Swiss set of rules that meet the…
MiFID II ARMs approved by FCA – but more streamlining is desired
The UK's Financial Conduct Authority has approved four Authorised Reporting Mechanisms (ARMs), which can be used for MiFID II Transaction Reporting, which Investment Firms must carry out as specified in…
ESMA permits NCAs to publish position limits directly
ESMA yesterday issued this document, stating that they had agreed with National Competent Authorities (NCAs) that they may publish position limits under MiFID II directly without having to wait for…
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