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Hard-to-value assets among top AIFMD reporting worries
23 December 2014 London
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Kinetic Partners has outlined the three top challenges faced by firms under the alternative investment fund manager’s directive (AIFMD) Annex IV reporting requirements...

IMA challenges ESMA over market data costs
22 December 2014 London
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

The IMA has challenged ESMA on its guidelines for market data costs under MiFID II...

ESMA cooperates with Australian regulators
11 December 2014 Sydney
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

ESMA has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Australian Securities and Investment Commission and the Reserve Bank of Australia to cooperate regarding CCPs...

LCH.Clearnet welcomes CCP reform
05 December 2014 London
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Initial margin must remain the most important defence for CCPs, while stress-testing and transparency of results is the key to increasing confidence in them...

Russian traders to report European transactions
21 November 2014 Moscow
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Russia’s National Settlement Depository and the CME European Trade Repository have announced that Russian market participants will be able to report OTC transactions with European counterparties...

EU to recognise third country CCPs
31 October 2014 Brussels
Reporter: Stephen Durham

The European Commission has adopted its first equivalence decisions for the regulatory regimes of CCPs in Australia, Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore...

ESMA publishes 2014 reporting priorities
29 October 2014 Paris
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published its 2014 public statement outlining common enforcement priorities for financial statements...

ESMA seeks stakeholders views
14 October 2014 Paris
Reporter: Stephen Durham

ESMA has published a consultation on draft regulatory technical standards it has to develop under EMIR for the clearing of foreign exchange non-deliverable forwards...

SimCorp takes EMIR requirements with ease
05 September 2014 Copenhagen
Reporter: Catherine Van de Stouwe

Clients of SimCorp have met the latest requirements of the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) following the second compliance deadline for reporting derivatives trades to a trade repository (TR)...

Making AIFMD as Eze as 1, 2, 3...
23 July 2014 Boston
Reporter: Catherine Van de Stouwe

Eze Software Group has expanded their Regulatory Filings Manager software to support the Alternative Investment Fund Derivative (AIFMD) Annex IV filings...

SGSS to service OTC derivatives
27 June 2014 Paris
Reporter: Stephen Durham

Societe Generale Securities Services (SGSS) has launched a trade repository reporting offer for over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives, servicing multi-counterparties and multi-asset classes, under the European Markets Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR)...

ESMA consults on MiFID reforms
22 May 2014 Paris
Reporter: Stephen Durham

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has launched the consultation process for the implementation of the revised Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) and Regulation (MiFIR)...