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Financial Industry Urges Brussels to Extend Access to UK Clearing Houses
By Philip Stafford
September 16, 2021, Financial Times
US and European banks and asset managers have urged Brussels to extend the permit granting EU banks access to UK clearing houses …
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Brexit: UK CPP Equivalence Decision Could Come by Year-End
By Alice Tchernookova
September 7, 2021, Practice Insight From IFLR
In just over eight months, the equivalence and recognition of UK central clearing counterparties (CCPs) by the EU will expire, putting hundreds of billions’ worth of euro cleared …
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EU Bank Watchdogs Warn on Industry Plans to Soften Regulations
By Nicholas Comfort and Frances Schwartzkopff
September 7, 2021, Bloomberg
European bank regulators issued a joint warning against watering down tough new capital requirements, after the industry seized on the …
Post-Brexit Euro Clearing Shift Stumbles
By Alice Tchernookova
September 2, 2021, Practice Insight From IFLR
A series of meetings held by the European Commission to collect market feedback on the issues that migrating large swathes …
Climate Risk-Weights a ‘Terrible Idea’ for Aiding Transition
By Samuel Wilkes
August 25, 2021, Risk
Tweaking bank capital rules to provide preferential treatment for exposure to green assets will not be effective at reducing greenhouse gas emissions in …
Market Gears Up for Key Euro RFR Transition Dates
By Alice Tchernookova
August 26, 2021, Practice Insight From IFLR
The transition from the euro overnight index average (EONIA) to the euro short-term rate (€STR) has struggled to gather momentum …
Blast From the Past: Quality of Dark Trading Improved Before MiFID II
By Louisa Chender
January 8, 2018, Global Investor Group
Market participants noted an improvement in the quality of dark executions as the dark trading landscape changed in the run up …
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For Bank Regulators, Tech Giants Are Now Too Big to Fail
By Iain Withers and Huw Jones
August 20, 2021, Reuters
More than a decade on from the financial crisis, regulators are spooked once again that some companies at the heart …
EU ‘Unlikely’ to Force Swaps Relocation – ex-MEP Swinburne
By Luke Clancy
August 11, 2021, Risk
Influential former lawmaker Kay Swinburne predicts that the European Union will not force the continent’s corporates to face EU-regulated clearing houses, because it …
Who Do You Believe in: the State or the Network?
By Chris Skinner
Originally published at Chris Skinner’s blog, The Finanser
I find so many similarities between what’s happening with COVID and what’s happening with cryptocurrencies. Why? It’s all to …
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