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The Joint Committee of the three European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) has published a consultation on the guidelines to clarify and enhance cooperation between competent authorities on a cross-bord...
On 20 March 2014 ESMA published the European Commission’s (EC) response (dated 26 February 2014) to ESMA’s letter of 14 February 2014 regarding the classification of financial instruments as derivativ...
derivatives which may be subject to the clearing obligation under EMIR Following the authorisation of Nasdaq OMX Clearing AB as the first EU-based central counterparty (CCP) under the European Market
The Bank of England has published an article by members of the PRA’s Policy Division on the role of business model analysis (BMA) in the supervision of insurers. This is in the “Topical Articles” sec...
The Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) has published a consultation paper seeking views from general insurers on a draft supervisory statement which sets out the PRA’s expectations in relation to t...
The House of Commons European Scrutiny Committee has discussed the EU draft Regulation on reporting and transparency of securities financing transactions (SFT Regulation). This details the Government...
The European Commission has adopted nine directly applicable regulatory technical standards (RTS) required by the Capital Requirements Regulation and the CRD IV Directive (together known as CRD IV). ...
The Korea Exchange (KRX) has started to provide a voluntary clearing service for Korea Won (KRW)-denominated interest rate swap (IRS) contracts to meet the G20 mandate on over-the-counter (OTC) deriva...
The Australian Treasury Department has released a proposals paper for the mandatory central clearing of interest rate derivatives denominated in USD, EUR, JPY and GBP (G4 currencies). This is the nex...
The Regulatory Oversight Committee (ROC) of the global legal entity identifier (LEI) system has published a document setting out the four digit random number prefixes provided to sponsored pre-LOU sol...
The International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) has published a consultation report on a comparison and analysis of prudential standards in the securities sector. The report highligh...
The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) has updated its questions and answers (Q&As) on the submission of information to national competent authorities (NCAs) in connect...