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Market Infrastructure
ESMA Set to Defer CSDR’s Settlement Discipline Regime
By Editors | 29/07/2020
The European Commission asked ESMA to consider a one-year deferral in light of operational pressures on firms and other market developments amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
Enforcement
ESMA Opens Probe Into Germany’s Wirecard Response
By Editors | 19/07/2020
ESMA’s fast track assessment will focus on whether BaFin and accounting watchdog FREP properly applied European guidelines on enforcing the reporting of financial information.
Market Infrastructure
SFTR Reporting Regime Goes Live for Sell-Side Firms
By Editors | 13/07/2020
Banks, investment firms, CSDs and CCPs started reporting securities financing transactions to approved trade repositories on Monday.
Market Infrastructure
Industry Bodies Call on EU to Reform Benchmarks Regulation
By Editors | 30/06/2020
The majority of third-country benchmarks pose no systemic risk but could nevertheless be barred from use in the EU due to a costly and burdensome third-country benchmark regime.
AML / KYC
UPDATED – Wirecard Fraud: A Timeline of Events
By Editors | 30/06/2020
Wirecard has filed for insolvency amid multiple probes. BaFin faces scrutiny for mishandling clear red flags. EY faces lawsuits for failing to catch the improprieties earlier.
Market Infrastructure
EC Proposes Simplified Approach to Supervising Non-EU CCPs
By Editors | 14/06/2020
Under the new approach, third-country CCPs that are not deemed systemically important will only be subject to basic ESMA supervision, relying on ‘comparable compliance’.
Securities / Derivatives
ESMA Clarifies Transparency Rules, Position Limits for Non-EU Venues
By Editors | 04/06/2020
ESMA has clarified its application of post-trade transparency requirements and the position limits regime to third-country trading venues.
Securities / Derivatives
European Regulators Lift Covid-19 Short Selling Bans
By Editors | 19/05/2020
In consultation with ESMA, Austria, Belgium, France, Greece, Spain and Italy have decided to lift short-selling bans that have been in place since mid-March.
Market Infrastructure
ESMA Approves Four Trade Repositories for SFTR Reporting
By Editors | 10/05/2020
DTCC, UnaVista, KDPW and REGIS-TR will have their TR registrations for derivatives contracts under EMIR extended to include securities financing transactions under SFTR.
Market Infrastructure
Industry Bodies Request Margin Exemption Extensions under EMIR
By Manesh Samtani | 06/05/2020
ISDA and other industry associations are asking for equivalence decisions for all jurisdictions that have implemented margin rules in line with the BCBS-IOSCO framework.
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