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ESMA to address EMIR REFIT, MiFID II misalignment
By James Thursfield
July 15, 2019, Global Investor Group
The European Securities Markets and Markets Authority (ESMA) has said it is looking to address the misalignment between EMIR REFIT and …
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STS securitization interest grows, despite frustration
By Jimmie Franklin
June 26, 2019, Practice Insight from IFLR
In 2019, the European Commission attempted to introduce a coherent framework for securitization within the E.U.: simple, transparent, and standardized …
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ESMA prepares guidelines for MiFID II share auctions
By Samuel Agini
June 13, 2019, Financial News
Europe’s financial regulator has given no indication that it intends to introduce draconian restrictions on a popular trading method that has come …
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Emergency docs: funds rush to meet E.U.’s revised EMIR rules
By Samuel Wilkes
June 6, 2019, Risk
Two weeks. That’s how long some funds outside the European Union may have to revise their collateral agreements for non-cleared swaps with E.U. …
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ESMA takes flak over vague CCP enhanced supervision plans
By Samuel Wilkes
June 6, 2019, Risk
Draft plans from the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) on designating non-European central counterparties as subject to enhanced supervision – so-called tier …
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France and Germany clash over future EU leadership
By Victor Mallet, Ben Hall, and Guy Chazan
May 27, 2019, Financial Times
France and Germany on Monday clashed over the future leadership of the E.U. after European elections produced …
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No more delays on MiFID open access, E.U. regulator says
By Costas Mourselas
May 13, 2019, Risk
First it was on, then it was off.
Now it’s back on again. The far-reaching regulatory change designed to give European financial market …
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Lawmakers urge E.U.’s Vestager to halt Italy scheme for bank shareholders bailout
By Francesco Guarascio
April 26, 2019, Reuters
European Union lawmakers called on the E.U.’s competition chief Margrethe Vestager to block a scheme devised by the Italian government to automatically compensate …
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Commission takes aim at UK buy-side post-Brexit
By Sharon Kimathi
April 25, 2019, Practice Insight from IFLR
European policymakers are in the midst of approving far-reaching prudential rules for investment firms. However, meeting the E.U.’s prudential framework …
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Into the void: Europe’s new but hazy securitization market
By Samuel Wilkes
April 16, 2019, Risk
The two conflicting forces of finance are, by tradition, fear and greed. In the case of European securitization, the dominant factor is fear …
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