News analysis on how banks, asset managers and trading venues are implementing new rules, from the changing nature of market structure under Mifid II, to how firms are grappling with transparency obligations and transaction reports.
The UMR rules are the latest of a string of regulations to be pushed as a result of Covid-19, allowing phase 5 and 6 firms additional time to prepare compliance programmes
The Freddie Mac financing is the first SOFR-indexed interest rate cap to be executed and should give the sector confidence as it looks to move new loans away from Libor
Exchanges are concerned that they will have to rely on buyside reports after Brexit. Whether that’s fair depends on who you ask
Covid-19 has sped up a process that started with Mifid II. The question now is how much buyside firms are willing to pay for it
Esma recently postponed the settlement discipline regime by another year to 2022, leading some market participants to speculate on whether parts of it could be removed altogether
Issues around the regime’s scope, timing and capital rules risk putting UK firms at a disadvantage with their EU counterparts
The separation of Mifid II into different reporting zones may heap an extra reporting burden onto UK trading venues
Banks, asset managers, exchanges, legal experts and regtech firms reveal how the market has coped with the biggest reporting and transparency requirements
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