Regulatory consequences – MiFID II and others
Some consequences of MiFID II and other regulatory activity, such as Brexit is beginning to be felt in several quarters: This article on the Reuters web site reports that the…
MiFID II is six months old
Six months ago today, MiFID II started to apply, on the 3rd January 2018. The "go live" day was met with much anticipation in the energy and commodities world (see here),…
LEI use – speech by ESMA
Yesterday Verena Ross, ESMA Executive Director gave this speech on the use of Legal Entity Identifiers(LEI), in particular with reference to MiFID II. This follows the announcement last week that LEIs…
European Commission provides answer on Ancillary Activity test
The European Commission DG FISMA has provided this written answer to ESMA on the outstanding question of whether the market size test portion of the Ancillary Activity test must be…
MiFID II update – LEIs and more
ESMA has announced that the requirement for Investment Firms to report transactions only using Legal Entity Identifiers (LEI) will commence on the 3rd July, following a 6 month grace period…
Possible ACER change in authority, ESMA speech, and a course
The European Council yesterday agreed its position to update and increase the role of the Agency for the Coordination of Energy Regulators (ACER), who are, amongst other things, responsible for…
5 months later, how is MiFID II going?
Yesterday was the 5 month anniversary of the start of MiFID II. In many ways, things have settled down since then, although there have been some developments over the past…
ESMA issues position limits opinion document – agrees with FCA
ESMA has issued this opinion document on the ICE Low Sulphur Gasoil 1st Line contract, following opinion documents issued previously (see here). The document agrees with the limits proposed by the…
Removed and updated position limits by the FCA and BaFin
The UK's FCA has updated their master list of position limits, which can be found here. The primary change is the removal of a contract on an OTF for physical…
Push back on “gold plated” Bank of England rules on algorithmic trading
Several industry associations and banks have pushed back against proposals by the Bank of England to roll out an enhanced version of the rules governing algorithmic trading in financial instruments,…
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