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Europe Delays Open Access Requirements
In the first weeks of January, as the main provisions of Europe's MiFID II reforms took effect, multiple regulators put a hold on a requirement that derivatives exchanges and clearinghouses provide open access to their services.
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People - December 2017
The Securities and Exchange Commission now has a full set of commissioners for the first time since 2015.
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Bringing Innovation to the Derivatives Industry
It has been said that data are to this century what oil was to the last one—a driver of growth, change and disruption.
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CME vs. LCH: Take Two
CME Group is making another run at the OTC FX market. The Chicago-based market operator recently unveiled an agreement with seven leading liquidity providers to begin using its clearing service for non-deliverable forwards and redoubled its efforts to promote the capital efficiencies that clearing can provide for FX traders.
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Cost of Clearing
On Dec. 14, several international regulatory bodies jointly announced that they will conduct surveys of market participants as part of a broader review of the impact of the G20 reforms on clearing incentives.
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Bitcoin Regulation: CFTC Clarifies Authority over Retail Trading
On Dec. 15, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued a proposed interpretation concerning the boundaries of its authority over the spot market in bitcoin and other virtual currencies.
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Research Unbundling
On Dec. 11, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued interpretative guidance addressing a potential compliance issue for intermediaries that do business with investment managers in Europe.
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Ride for Beth: Raising money for research into scleroderma
James Egan works for ABN Amro Clearing Bank as the chief commercial officer for Europe. In 2015 his 11-year-old daughter Beth was diagnosed with a type of auto-immune disease called scleroderma.
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Hong Kong's SFC Issues Warning on Cryptocurrency-Related Products and Derivatives
n Dec. 11, Hong Kong's Securities and Futures Commission issued a circular cautioning investors regarding the risks associated with bitcoin futures contracts and other cryptocurrency-related investment products and reminding financial services providers of the legal and regulatory requirements when they target customers in Hong Kong.
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