ESMA has issued this report on the new reporting standards to be used for EMIR reporting under a new set of Regulatory Technical Standards(RTS). The changes are significant and are…
Earlier this week, the UK's Financial Conduct Authority issued this notice which states that UK firms will be permitted to continue trading shares on EU trading venues and systematic internalisers.…
ESMA has announced that the EMIR validation rule changes originally planned for February will now be applied on 8 March 2021 instead of 1 February. The announcement can be found…
ISDA has written this letter to the Financial Stability Board (FSB) urging a better coordination of efforts worldwide to harmonise different aspects of regulatory reporting. In particular a lack of…
Last week, FISMA of the European Commission updated two documents relating to Brexit, targeted at firms in the EU: "Markets in Financial Instruments" (here) – Includes a reminder that at…
ESMA yesterday published an updated version of the EMIR Questions and Answers document, which can be found here. The updated question is TR11b on page 85 and relates to the…
Last week, on 17th June, the next stage of the EMIR "REFIT" programme came into effect (see here for the original post). This was the requirement that Financial Counterparties (FC)…
A new book by Aviv Handler on the rules covered by this blog is now available from the publisher, Risk Books. The book is titled "Navigating European Energy and Commodity…
This blog is restarting today after a few weeks' absence due to personal circumstances. Over the coming days "catch up" posts will be published, as well as a special announcement…
EMIR REFIT made some significant changes to several parts of EMIR last June, including changes to the calculation of the EMIR clearing threshold and the availability of an exemption from…