Regulatory consequences – MiFID II and others
Some consequences of MiFID II and other regulatory activity, such as Brexit is beginning to be felt in several quarters: This article on the Reuters web site reports that the…
MiFID II is six months old
Six months ago today, MiFID II started to apply, on the 3rd January 2018. The "go live" day was met with much anticipation in the energy and commodities world (see here),…
LEI use – speech by ESMA
Yesterday Verena Ross, ESMA Executive Director gave this speech on the use of Legal Entity Identifiers(LEI), in particular with reference to MiFID II. This follows the announcement last week that LEIs…
European Commission provides answer on Ancillary Activity test
The European Commission DG FISMA has provided this written answer to ESMA on the outstanding question of whether the market size test portion of the Ancillary Activity test must be…
MiFID II update – LEIs and more
ESMA has announced that the requirement for Investment Firms to report transactions only using Legal Entity Identifiers (LEI) will commence on the 3rd July, following a 6 month grace period…
EMIR changes agreed and news about penalties
The European Parliament has agreed in a plenary session to the proposed changes to EMIR as part of the REFIT process, passed by the ECON committee a few weeks ago…
5 months later, how is MiFID II going?
Yesterday was the 5 month anniversary of the start of MiFID II. In many ways, things have settled down since then, although there have been some developments over the past…
Updated EMIR Q+A – with updated reporting answers
ESMA has today published an updated Questions and Answers document on EMIR, which can be found here. The updated answers include several on the reporting of derivatives trades, which will…
ESMA issues position limits opinion document – agrees with FCA
ESMA has issued this opinion document on the ICE Low Sulphur Gasoil 1st Line contract, following opinion documents issued previously (see here). The document agrees with the limits proposed by the…
ECON committee agrees EMIR changes
The European Parliament's Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) last week voted to agree to the proposed changes to EMIR as part of the REFIT programme (see here). The press…
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