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AFME responds to FCA’s equity shares listing proposal
09 May 2023 UK
Reporter: Lucy Carter

The Association for Financial Markets in Europe has responded to the FCA’s proposed rule changes around the UK’s framework for commercial companies’ equity shares listing, published last week

AFME issues equity market liquidity warning before MiFIR Review
17 April 2023 UK
Reporter: Lucy Carter

The Association for Financial Markets in Europe has advised negotiators at EU trilogues for the Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation review to consider the impact that MiFID could have on the attractiveness of Europe’s capital markets

ESMA goes live with DLT pilot
23 March 2023 Europe
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The pilot builds on the existing MiFIR regulation to include tokenised financial instruments. This aims to bring pre- and post-trade transparency and market abuse monitoring to DLT-based securities

ICMA publishes new post-trade framework for EU-traded sovereign bonds
26 January 2023 Switzerland
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

ICMA says the initiative will help to inform the current discussions among policy makers in the ongoing MiFIR review, and should help “pave the way for the inclusion of meaningful, well-calibrated” sovereign bond data in the EU bond consolidated tape

ESMA recommends ISO-standard DTI codes for DLT pilot
11 January 2023 France
Reporter: Lucy Carter

The authority has recommended ISO-standard digital token identifier codes for use in its distributed ledger technology pilot regulatory regime, which comes into force 23 March 2023

AFME expects “more ambition” in EC’s approach to establishing a CT for pre- and post-trade
22 December 2022 UK
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

“More ambition” is needed in the European Council’s approach toward a properly constructed consolidated tape for real-time pre-trade as well as post-trade, says AFME

ESMA issues guidance on DLT-based market infrastructure
16 December 2022 EU
Reporter: Bob Currie

These guidelines provide templates for applications to operate any form of DLT market infrastructure under the DLT Pilot Regulation, including a DLT MTF, a DLT settlement system or a DLT trading and settlement system

Kaizen Reporting appoints Matthew Vincent as a managing director
18 October 2022 UK
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Vincent has more than 30 years of experience in financial services, including more than 10 years’ experience working in regulatory reporting functions at Tier 1 banks

Cross-border agreement on regulation essential, say ALFI panellists
18 October 2022 UK
Reporter: Lucy Carter

In the panel, ‘Let’s hear from the regulators’, current issues around regulation amid geopolitical crisis, the aftermath of a global pandemic, and Brexit were addressed

FCA says firms’ data still not sufficiently checked
04 October 2022 UK
Reporter: Lucy Carter

The FCA’s latest Market Watch has outlined recent observations on transaction reporting and instrument reference data regimes. The organisation aims to help firms maintain and improve the quality of their work in these areas

Russell Investments sticks with ACA for regulatory compliance
28 September 2022 US
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Russell Investments has selected ACA’s Regulatory Reporting Monitoring & Assurance service to help manage its transaction reporting arrangements

ESMA publishes latest Q&A’s for transparency issues under MiFID and MiFIR
06 September 2022 France
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

On 5 September, ESMA updated its Q&A on whether transactions executed between a branch and its head office should be subject to transparency requirement