New Q+A on EMIR published by ESMA
ESMA have just released a new Questions and Answers document on EMIR which can be found here.There is not a huge amount in the document that will be of immediate…
ESMA have just released a new Questions and Answers document on EMIR which can be found here.There is not a huge amount in the document that will be of immediate…
Today saw the deadline for back-loading all trades that were live on February 12th, three months ago. Reports are coming on that several of the repositories have struggled to cope…
See this post on The OTC Space where the Chairman of ESMA, Steven Maijoor, is reported to have said that the implementation of EMIR Trade Reporting has "gone quite well". These…
Amir Khwaja has written this interesting article on The OTC Space looking at the publicly available stats for trades reported so far. It makes interesting reading and the conclusions are…
ESMA today launched a public consultation of the risk management techniques to be applied to non cleared OTC derivatives under EMIR. The focus is on the mandatory use of initial margin…
Today saw the publication of an update to the European Commodity Market Regulation report published by ETR Advisory and ComTech Advisory.The updated report can be downloaded from here.
ESMA have published their 2014 work plan for supervising trade repositories, which can be downloaded here.In it they talk of their general investigatory plans. But they also talk of the…
Scott O Malia, the commissioner of the CFTC recently talked of how they are still unable to process and analyse the data they have received under Dodd Frank trade reporting. A…
See here for Diana Higgins's post on The OTC Space explaining the benefits of Portfolio Compression. It is the first post in a series that should make for interesting reading.
The European Commission yesterday responded to the letter sent to them by ESMA a few weeks ago, asking for clarification on the definition of a derivative for FX and Physical…