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SFTR: Market Seeks Alternative Securities Financing Options
By Sharon Kimathi
July 16, 2018, Practice Insight from IFLR
The proposed Securities Financing Transaction Regulation (SFTR) go-live date has caused a stir in the securities market, with some looking …
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MiFID II: Third-Country Banks Target Reporting Workarounds
By Lizzie Meager
July 5, 2018, Practice Insight from IFLR
Banks and brokers based outside the E.U. are working hard to find ways around Europe’s sweeping new markets regulation, MiFID …
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French Regulator: We Are Not the Brexit Bogeyman
By Philip Alexander
July 5, 2018, Risk
A leading French financial markets regulator has stressed the country does not want to use Brexit as an opportunity to drag existing business …
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Questions Remain on Scope of MiFID Extraterritoriality
By Samuel Wilkes
June 13, 2018, Risk
Global banking groups are still grappling with uncertainties surrounding the application of new European Union financial market rules on operations located outside the …
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French ‘Bombshell’ Would Gut MiFIR Equivalence, Say Lawyers
By Samuel Wilkes
June 4, 2018, Risk
The French delegation at the Council of the European Union has put forward proposals that effectively scrap the E.U.’s equivalence regime for third-country …
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E.U. Close to Granting Swaps Trading Equivalence to Singapore
By Blake-Evans Pritchard
May 29, 2018, Risk
The European Commission is gearing up to deem Singapore an equivalent jurisdiction for trading over-the-counter derivatives, on the back of a new trading …
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End-Users Fear Loss of MiFIRs Open-Access Promise
By Philip Alexander
April 24, 2018, Risk
Participants in Europe’s listed derivatives markets fear a hard-fought regulatory victory is slipping away.
Under new trading and transparency rules, exchange operators are …
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ESMA Updates Its Q&A on MiFID II Commodity Derivatives Topics
By Jenna Lomax
March 27, 2018, Securities Lending Times
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has today updated its questions and answers (Q&As) on the Markets in Financial Instruments …
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ESMA Sheds Light on “Package” Rules for MiFIR Trading Obligation
By Costas Mourselas
March 21, 2018, GlobalCapital
The European Securities and Markets Authority on Wednesday clarified an important section
of transparency regulation MiFIR that makes counterparties trade certain derivatives on…
Addressing the Reporting Challenges of SFTR
By Shruti Prakash, Publicis.Sapient
The onset of SFTR, a European Union (E.U.)-wide framework, brings a brand new set of products and associated challenges with data assimilation and accurate reporting. As …
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