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…
See here for the final article in the three part series by Diana Higgins on the benefits of Portfolio Compression from a credit perspective. The article appears on The OTC Space.…
See here for an interesting article in the International Financing Review about a possible issue where trades that arise out of a compression may need to be cleared under EMIR,…
Europex (the association of European energy exchanges) have just published this statement about whether physical commodity trades should be classified as derivatives, as defined in MiFID Annex I section C.…
ESMA have published an updated version to their Questions and Answers document on EMIR, which can be found here. Among the interesting items for the energy and commodities trading industry:…
The beginning of December sees the rolling out of the ESMA "Level 1" requirements for EMIR Trade Reporting. This represents an attempt by ESMA to improve reconciliation rates at and between…
ISDA have just updated their useful compliance calendar. The latest version can be found here.
The IETA (International Emissions Trading Association) have issued this useful presentation on the consequences of the change in treatment of emissions and instruments under the ETS in terms of MiFID II…