What could 2019 have in store for us?
As the working year of 2019 opens, it is worth taking a few moments to consider what will keep us busy in the regulatory world of energy and commodity trading…
As the working year of 2019 opens, it is worth taking a few moments to consider what will keep us busy in the regulatory world of energy and commodity trading…
As 2018 draws to a close, it is worth briefly reflecting where we stand in the world of regulation, as applied to energy and commodity trading: We opened the year…
ETR Advisory and the Market Abuse Centre will jointly organise an open "anti abuse" forum for the energy and commodities industries, to run in London on Monday 11th March 2019. This discussion forum…
On Friday the Danish Utility Regulator announced that Danmark Energi has been fined 750,000 Danish Krone as well as a charge of 354,000 Danish Krone for disgorgement, for a breach…
The Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (CNMC), the Spanish National Regulatory Authority (NRA) has fined Galp Gas Natural S.A.and Multienergía Verde, S.L.U 80,000 EUR and 120,000 EUR…
Various regulators have recently published summaries of recent enforcement case statistics and other metrics: In Europe, ESMA has issued this report on "administrative and criminal sanctions and other administrative measures…
There have been several anti abuse updates since our last post on the topic here: The UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published this new "Market Watch" newsletter, which provides…
ACER yesterday issued the follow documents and updates: An updated Questions and Answer document on REMIT (here) An updated list of "accepted EICs" for use as the delivery point in…
Activity in the anti abuse sphere continues, in addition to the large REMIT fine levied in France last week (see here). In the UK, the FCA published this Decision Notice,…
Earlier this week, the FCA issued this Market Watch document on market conduct and transaction reporting issues. There are several observations on market abuse surveillance, some of which are relevant…