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European Commission Pushes for Consolidated Tape in Bond Markets
By Annabel Smith
January 20, 2021, The Trade
The European Commission has set out plans to push for a consolidated tape in the European primary and secondary bond markets following …
WFE Warns Against ‘Narrow View’ on CCP Margins
By Wendy Lisney
January 20, 2021, Global Investor Group
The idea that tweaking or imposing further constraints on central counterparties’ (CCP) margin models would prevent sharp increases in margin and …
Brexit Drives Swaps Trading to US Platforms
By Robert Mackenzie Smith
January 19, 2021, Risk
Up to 50% of euro and sterling interest rate swaps trading has moved from European and UK venues to platforms in the …
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Brexit: Financial Services Continue to Operate in No-Deal Settings
By Alice Tchernookova
January 18, 2021, Practice Insight from IFLR
After a long-winded and tumultuous negotiating process, the EU and UK finally came to terms on a Trade and Cooperation …
Brexit Finance Talks Get Technical With Broader Progress Elusive
By Harry Wilson
January 17, 2021, Bloomberg
As with many meetings these days, the UK and EU’s latest negotiations on financial services began with a video conference call Friday. Unlike …
EU ‘Not Punishing’ UK Financial Services Sector, London Envoy Insists
By George Parker, Jim Brunsden, and Mure Dickie
January 19, 2021, Financial Times
Brussels is “not punishing” the City of London by withholding key regulatory rulings that would allow UK …
Brussels Says It Won’t Be Rushed on City of London Access to EU
By Huw Jones
January 19, 2021, Reuters
EU Financial Services Commissioner Mairead McGuinness said on Tuesday that Brussels would not grant Britain’s financiers access to the bloc before assessing the …
ESMA Issues Guidelines on Reverse Solicitation
By Bilal Jafar
January 13, 2021, Finance Magnates
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) addressed the issues related to a few questionable operations by the companies around reverse solicitation …
EU Needs ‘Masterplan’ to Grab Euro Finance From London
By Huw Jones
January 18, 2021, Reuters
The European Union needs a “masterplan” to move euro financial services from London to the bloc if it wants to expand the single …
French Regulator Questions Need for Share Trading Equivalence
By Samuel Wilkes
January 15, 2021, Risk
A senior French markets regulator has questioned the need for offering third countries an equivalence determination under European Union share trading rules, after …
