Anti abuse and surveillance articles
Several pieces of news and article have been published recently on the topic of surveillance and anti abuse, with a focus on the US: This article on the Bloomberg from…
Several pieces of news and article have been published recently on the topic of surveillance and anti abuse, with a focus on the US: This article on the Bloomberg from…
See here for an article by Ian Sutherland on The OTC Space about implementing regulatory change and technology. While the article is focused on banking , the energy and commodity…
See here for an article on the India based "Money life" web site about alleged manipulations in currency and commodity markets using spoofing and other typical manipulation techniques. The allegations…
The European Commission has created this web page which summaries the "equivalence decisions" made with respect to the recognition of the compliance of non EU countries. Equivalence recognition of a…
See here for a story on FT.com which reports on issues that the London Metals Exchange have experienced with Suspicious Transaction and Order Reporting (STOR), a requirement for exchanges and…
ESMA have published translations of the MAR "guidelines on information relating to commodity derivatives markets or relates spot markets for the purpose of the definition of inside information" (see here for…
For many, today is the first working day of 2017, which is also the original start date of MiFID II, before it was delayed by a year. With an eventful…
ESMA yesterday issued a questions and answers document on MiFID data reporting, which can be found here. The requirements apply to investment firms, including those in energy and commodities who…
Ofgem, Great Britain's National Regulatory Authority (NRA) yesterday issued this open letter to the market on the topic of "scarcity pricing" and conduct. It reminds market participants that generation must…
The CFTC in the US have fined Société Générale SA $450,000 for failing to report trades to an SDR (Swaps Data Repository). The notice can be found here. The bank…