FIA's project plan helps members track the progess towards meeting the deadline of 2 March for responding to ESMA's latest consultation on MiFID II/MiFIR
CONTINUE READINGFIA's project plan helps members track the progess towards meeting the deadline of 2 March for responding to ESMA's latest consultation on MiFID II/MiFIR
CONTINUE READINGLast week’s FIA Europe conference on MiFID II brought together an impressive list of speakers and a full house of delegates to hear presentations on the key areas of the directive and regulation that will have the most impact on the listed derivatives industry.
CONTINUE READINGU.S. regulators are pushing ahead with reforms to financial market benchmarks, working with the private sector to develop benchmarks for interest rate markets that could serve as alternatives to Libor.
CONTINUE READINGOn Jan. 22 FIA provided the Commodity Futures Trading Commission with its views on certain issues related to the CFTC’s proposed position limit and aggregation rules.
CONTINUE READINGThis Special Report is the second in the FIA and FIA Europe’s series covering specific areas of the European Securities and Markets Authorities (“ESMA”) consultation process for the implementation of the recast Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (2014/65/EU) and Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (Regulation 600/2012) (“MiFIR”), which together are referred to as “MiFID II” and come into effect on 3 January 2017.
CONTINUE READINGIf you follow finance even casually, you’d be hard-pressed to have missed last year’s debate on equity market structure, technological advances, and the speed of trading.
CONTINUE READINGThe OCC, the Chicago-based clearinghouse for equity derivatives, has established a $1 billion repurchase facility with an pension fund, increasing its liquidity resources to $3 billion from $2 billion.
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