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ESMA Extends LEI Grace Period Until October 2022
By Oliver Wade
April 13, 2021, Global Investor Group
The European securities regulator has listened to calls from the industry and extended its forbearance period on the reporting of legal …

UK Extends SFTR’s LEI Grace Period by 12 Months
By Oliver Wade
April 7, 2021, Global Investor Group
The UK’s financial watchdog said on Tuesday that legal entity identifiers (LEI) of non-European Economic Area (EEA) third country issuers will …

ESMA Dithers Over Mandatory LEIs for Repo Collateral
By Samuel Wilkes
March 26, 2021, Risk
Repo and securities lending participants are currently living with a veiled threat issued by the European Union’s markets regulator. If carried out, the …
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The Brexit Share Trading Exodus
By Annabel Smith
February 11, 2021, The Trade
In the final weeks of 2020, it was apparent that no agreement on equivalence was likely to be reached between the United …

Derivatives leaders call for “critical” equivalence decisions
By Wendy Lisney
December 3, 2020, Global Investor Group
The UK government’s equivalence decisions for exchange traded derivatives in the European Economic Area create an unlevel playing field and put …

City funds risk being silenced in EU trade body reforms
By David Ricketts
October 30, 2020, Financial News
The UK’s £8.5tn fund management sector risks being sidelined in a vote on changes to an influential European lobby group, in a …

What does the post-Brexit future hold for City of London fund managers?
By Siobhan Riding
August 1, 2020, Financial Times
On a cold Wednesday morning in February, the chairmen of the UK’s two largest listed fund managers were called to the British …
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ECB offers capital relief to IBs in a bid to boost market liquidity
By Tyler Davies
April 17, 2020, GlobalCapital
The European Central Bank is encouraging investment banks to keep up their market making activities during the coronavirus pandemic by offering them temporary …
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U.K. services industry sees little joy in post-Brexit world
By Danica Kirka
December 18, 2019, AP
Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s decisive victory in last week’s general election provided little comfort to Britain’s once world-beating financial services industry, which has …
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