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Brexit Implications for Financial Services
The UK’s financial services industry is not only very important to the UK economy, it is also extremely important to the EU economy. The loss of the financial services ‘passport’ …
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BOE to Consult on Sonia Clearing Mandate
By Helen Bartholomew
March 9, 2021, Risk
According to Tradeweb, Sonia swaps liquidity is already commensurate with sterling Libor instruments, even at longer maturities.
The OTC trading venue saw average daily volume …
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Blast from the Past: Trading venues decry disruptors as MTF battle heats up
By Ben St. Clair
January 14, 2020, Risk
Imagine, for a moment, a trading tool that allows buy-side users to send quote requests to multiple dealers in one click. The …
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Synthetic Libor powers give FCA ‘massive discretion’
By Helen Bartholomew
November 20, 2020, Risk
The UK financial regulator’s new powers for averting chaos in Libor’s stickiest contracts may be more potent than some envisaged, as two amendments …
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Libor fallback protocol: the X factor
By Alice Tchernookova
November 5, 2020, Practice Insight from IFLR
It had been many months, even years, in the making. The International Swaps and Derivatives’ Association’s (Isda) interbank offered rate …

CSDR: UK firms will still have to comply with settlement discipline
By Alice Tchernookova
July 23, 2020, Practice Insight from IFLR
In an announcement that gave some initial pointers on the shape of post-Brexit financial services regulation, UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak …
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Attention turns to Esma after UK quashes CSDR buy-ins
By Philip Alexander
June 29, 2020, Risk
The European Union could face renewed pressure to rethink its pending rules on settlement discipline following the UK government’s unilateral decision to opt …
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