Compliance

Phase four and five firms are worried that the costs and efforts preparing for uncleared margin rules will be gone with the wind, especially following the CFTC’s threshold announcement

Almost half of UK-based buyside firms haven't started yet with just months to go, according to in-house lawyers. Here the Central Bank of Ireland's asset management director responds

SIs say that non-EU counterparts don’t want to trade with them anymore over information leakage fears as more extraterritorial results emerge

Administrators from outside the EU are already withdrawing from the continent. Users should prepare for the worst: the loss of hundreds of critical reference points

The directive’s product governance framework is still causing headaches, with disagreements over when to conduct the reviews and how granular to be. Compliance teams are struggling with the concept of proportionality

Even the EU Commission has now acknowledged the practical issues making recognition and endorsement highly unattractive. The highly politicised equivalence process may now be their best bet

Capital structuring heads explain that uncertainty on the eligibility requirements of instruments is restricting their medium-term debt sales planning. The risk is that it floods the market in 2019