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E.U.’s Dombrovskis on Stimulus Package, G7 Virus Response
European Commission Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis discusses the bloc’s pledge to provide widespread fiscal stimulus in response to the coronavirus outbreak. He speaks with Bloomberg’s Vonnie Quinn and Guy Johnson …
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E.U. watchdog to nudge bond trades closer to real-time transparency
By Huw Jones
March 10, 2020, Reuters
The European Union’s markets watchdog has proposed making it harder for traders to obtain “waivers” from transparency rules for bonds.
The bloc’s MiFID …
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E.U. lawmaker calls for emergency powers to calm markets
By Huw Jones
March 18, 2020, Reuters
The European Union’s markets watchdog should use its emergency powers to steady markets as the coronavirus epidemic sends investors fleeing, an E.U. lawmaker …
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MiFID II: IRPs and small banks express fear and hope for research pricing’s future
By Hugo Bromley
March 11, 2020, Practice Insight from IFLR
Independent research providers (IRPs) are hopeful that changes to MiFID II will better-support their industry but are sceptical that promises …
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Spot FX could be dragged into MiFID II
By Rebekah Tunstead
March 12, 2020, Risk
The European Commission is looking to Australia as it considers pulling spot foreign exchange into MiFID II, the regime that exists for equities, …
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E.U. rejects U.K. call for rapid agreement on financial services
By Jim Brunsden
March 16, 2020, Financial Times
Europe’s financial regulation chief has rejected calls from the U.K. for the City of London’s future market access to be settled by …
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FIA seeks clarity on proposed U.S. swap rule
By Wendy Lisney
March 11, 2020, Global Investor Group
Trade body the Futures Industry Association (FIA) has called on the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to remove regulatory uncertainty linked …
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Brexit: CCP access likely to pose biggest threat
By Alice Tchernookova
March 11, 2020, Practice Insight from IFLR
We’re now well into the transition period during which the U.K. and E.U. are set to decide the terms of …
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Of rats and men: would member compensation imperil CCPs?
By Samuel Wilkes
March 11, 2020, Risk
In an attempt to check Hanoi’s flourishing rat population, French colonial authorities in Vietnam once offered locals a bounty for each rat tail …
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E.U. ESG Rules: Pack Leader or Lone Wolf?
By Adrian Whelan, Brown Brothers Harriman
Originally published at the On the Regs blog
Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) integration within asset management is a global phenomenon. That’s putting it …
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