Covid 19 updates – delays and notices
It comes as no surprise that there have been many announcements relating to the impact of Covid 19 since our last update here. These include: Temporary changes and a "softening"…
It comes as no surprise that there have been many announcements relating to the impact of Covid 19 since our last update here. These include: Temporary changes and a "softening"…
ESMA opened two consultations relating to EMIR last week: Technical standards on reporting, data quality, data access and registration of Trade Repositories under EMIR REFIT (here). Report on post trade…
Earlier this week, ESMA published this report, which was submitted to the European Commission a few weeks ago. It provides a recommendation as to whether to extend the exemption for…
ISDA this week issued this spreadsheet relating to EMIR reporting. It is a version of the EMIR "validations spreadsheet" with added columns for many of the fields, that provide best…
It is 6 years today since EMIR reporting started, on the 12th February 2014. The initial post from that day can be found here. Interestingly, for those in the energy…
There have been several revelations recently that many who are obliged to report under MiFID II have been experienced issues with reporting. This article on The Trade News web site…
The European Commission has confirmed in a speech that the temporary equivalence of UK Central Clearing Counterparties (CCP) will be extended further than the end of March 2020, as previously…
Yesterday ESMA issued an updated version of the EMIR Questions and Answers document, which can be found here. There are several updates, some of which relate to the consequences of…
The Futures Industry Association has issued this paper on the topic of reporting Exchange Traded Derivatives (ETD) under EMIR. The paper proposes some changes to simplify position reporting of ETDs.…
This blog is back after a short break. Last week, ESMA published an updated Questions and Answers (Q+A) document, as well as a letter around REFIT (see here). The updated…