Pension Funds Should Benefit from a Further Two Year Exemption from Central Clearing Requirements
The European Commission has today published a report that recommends granting pension funds a two-year exemption from…
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ESMA Publishes Opinion on Draft RTS on the Clearing Obligation for Interest Rate Swaps
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has today published an Opinion on the Draft RTS on…
CFTC’s Division of Swap Dealer and Intermediary Oversight Issues No-Action Relief to Introducing Brokers for Certain Financial Reporting Requirements
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Division of Swap Dealer and Intermediary Oversight today issued no-action relief…
ESMA Adds Athens Exchange Clearing House to its List of Authorised CCPs
ESMA has today added Athens Exchange Clearing House to its list of authorised CCPs under the European…
CFTC Issues Order of Registration for the Tokyo Commodity Exchange, Inc.
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (Commission) announced today that it has issued an Order of Registration…
Impacts and Implications of the CFTC’s Emerging Swaps Clearinghouse Exemptive Program
20 January 2015 – 10 am EST (NYC) 3 pm GMT (London) / 4 pm CET (Paris/Berlin)…
ESMA to Cooperate with the Hong Kong SFC on CCPs
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) and the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) have…
CFTC’s Division of Market Oversight Issues Time-Limited Extension of No-Action Relief Regarding Masking of Certain Identifying Information Required to be Reported
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) Division of Market Oversight (Division) today issued a letter providing…
Europe Braces for Derivatives Regulatory Lift Off in 2015
CCP clearing, MiFID II and more regulatory reform will dominate ’15
ESMA Issues Feedback Statement on the Central Clearing of Non-deliverable Forwards
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) today published a feedback statement on its consultation on the…