The FCA has announced that it is undertaking a thematic review of the debt management sector, in line with the commitment made in its 2017/18 Business Plan.
The scope of the FCA’s review will be based on a sample of both fee-charging and free-to-customer debt management providers in order to help the regulator build up
The FCA has published a report outlining how the regulatory sandbox has met its objectives over the first year of operation. The report also highlights some of the challenges faced by firms in conducting their tests within the sandbox. These include accessing banking services and smaller firms struggling to acquire customers to take part in
Regulation (EU) 2015/2365 on the transparency of securities financing transactions and of reuse (SFTR) aims to get a better understanding of the effects of shadow banking (non-bank credit intermediation) and to address the risks posed by securities financing transactions (SFTs).
The European Commission (Commission) has now published a report
The position limits exemption application is now available for completion on the FCA’s Connect webpage. Any exemption approved will be an uncapped exemption for risk-reducing positions in the specific contract. However, the FCA will still monitor the reported positions against the basis of the information provided in the application form. If there is a significant
The European Securities and Markets Authority has produced, for the first time, data on the size of the interest rate, credit, equity, commodity and foreign exchange derivatives markets in the EU, based on the weekly data it receives from trade repositories.
View ESMA produces first overview of EU derivative markets size, 19 October 2017
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published FAQs regarding the publication of the MiFID II transitional transparency calculations (TTC) for all non-equity instruments in accordance with Commission Delegated Regulation 2017/583 of 14 July 2016 supplementing MiFIR with regard to regulatory technical standards on transparency requirements for trading venues and
The European Payments Council (EPC) has published updated rulebook versions for all its SEPA payment schemes:
These updated
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (Basel Committee) has published its latest report which sets out the adoption status of the Basel III standards for each Basel Committee member jurisdiction as of end-September 2017. The report updates the Basel Committee’s previous progress reports which have been published on a semi-annual basis since October
Our latest MiFID II Academy webinar is now available.
The seventh issue of our Global Asset Management Quarterly is now available. You can also register to automatically receive each issue as it is released.
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