Article on exemption reductions in MiFID II
See here for a good summary by Wragge, Lawrence, Graham & Co on the reduced exemptions available in MiFID II for commodities trading, according to the current consultation. Anyone trading any…
See here for a good summary by Wragge, Lawrence, Graham & Co on the reduced exemptions available in MiFID II for commodities trading, according to the current consultation. Anyone trading any…
At the end of an interesting 2014, it is time to wish all readers a very happy holiday period. We would like to thank everyone for their attention over the…
ESMA have published this paper which gives a cost benefit analysis of MiFID II. The paper looks at the various aspects on MiFID II and how the different stakeholders will…
The UK's Financial Conduct Authority have updated their page which outlines the supervisory priorities for EMIR, now covering 2015. The page can be found here. Of particular note: A focus…
ESMA have just announced the final Technical Advice and have also opened another Public Consultation on MiFID II. The technical advice comprises ESMA views on the various issues addressed within the…
See this interesting story on Bloomberg about regulation that may soon apply to the calculation of benchmarks in the commodities area. The article looks at how this may, or may…
See here for a press release from TriOptima and DTCC about a reconciliation service between the DTCC TR and TriOptima. The tool allows TriOptima users who use DTCC as their…
Monday sees the rolling out of the ESMA “level 1 validations”. This is a new set of constraints on the fields that must be sent to Trade Repositories under EMIR.…
The G20 meeting in Brisbane has led to this communique being issued. In it we see that the G20's view is that many reforms that were required to address issues…
Yesterday ESMA launched a public consultation reviewing trade reporting under EMIR. The document can be found here. The consultation follows many issues and confusion around EMIR reporting, which has been…