LEIs required soon
The Legal Entity Identifier initiative was born out of the G20 measures put in place to reduce systemic risk, at the same time as the declaration which led to rules…
The Legal Entity Identifier initiative was born out of the G20 measures put in place to reduce systemic risk, at the same time as the declaration which led to rules…
On 1st November 2017 the fields and formats with which trades must be reported under EMIR will change (see here). This is the third set of changes to be made…
The variation margin requirements of the uncleared margin rules were to start globally on 1st March. However due to a backlog in the required "re-papering", most jurisdictions signalled that the…
ESMA has issued "portability guidelines" for EMIR Trade Repositories(TR), to be followed when data is to be transferred from one TR to another. This could occur if a market participant…
The FIA have written this paper commenting on the legislative proposal issued by the European Commission, which, amongst other things suggested several changes for non-financial counterparties, including many in energy…
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission has announced a review of the "swaps" reporting rules under the Dodd Frank Act. The announcement can be found here. There are objectives to…
The Bank of International Settlements (BIS) and IOSCO have published this paper which gives views on how data elements of OTC derivatives should be reported under different regulatory regimes worldwide.…
See here for an article on the Reuters web site which talks of the difficulties for some of preparing for the start of the new EMIR RTS, on 1st November.…
The new EMIR Regulatory Technical Standard (RTS) will start to apply from 1st November 2017 (see here). See here for a link to a video on The OTC Space with…
ESMA has recently authorised a Trade Repository created by Bloomberg which can be used as a data destination under EMIR. The press release from ESMA is here and the one…