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  • SWIFT Eases Trade Reporting For EMIR Compliance - Practical, Flexible Solutions Enable Financial Institutions And Corporates To Meet February 2014 Deadline For Reporting Derivatives Transactions Under European Market Infrastructure Regulation

    Date 14/01/2014

    Following the European Securities and Markets Authority’s (ESMA’s) approval of six trade repositories, there is a start-date of 12 February 2014 for derivatives trade reporting under the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR). From 12 February, entities affected by the EMIR reporting obligations will need to report their trades to one of the newly-authorised repositories.

  • Commercial Banks May Issue Corporate Bonds At Shanghai Stock Exchange To Replenish Capital

    Date 14/01/2014

    On November 8, 2013, the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) and the China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC) jointly issued the “Guiding Opinions on Commercial Banks Issuing Corporate Bonds to Replenish Capital” (the “Guiding Opinions” for short), which allows listed and to-be-listed commercial banks to issue corporate bonds at exchanges to replenish capital. The Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) has also recently released the “Notice on Commercial Banks Issuing Corporate Bonds to Replenish Capital and the Issues Related to Listing, Trading and Transfer of the Bonds” (the “Notice” for short), which makes specific provisions on listing and trading, transfer, information disclosure, and other issues related to corporate bonds issued by commercial banks for capital replenishment at the SSE. The issuance of the “Guiding Opinions” and the “Notice” symbolizes that channels of commercial banks for capital replenishment have been expanded to the exchange markets, which is of positive significance for promoting the innovation of capital instruments in the banking sector and improving the integration of China’s bond market.

  • Finansinspektionen (FI) - Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority - Withdraws The Authorisation Of Festival International

    Date 14/01/2014

    The investment firm Festival International AB has, for a long period of time, been safekeeping financial instruments and related services such as cash management without the requisite authorisation. The company has also demonstrated deficiencies in its internal governance. Finansinspektionen (FI) therefore withdraws Festival’s authorisation to conduct investment services and activities.

  • TriOptima Resumes Compression Of Cleared Interest Rate Swaps With LCH.Clearnet Bringing Total Notional Eliminated To More Than $200 Trillion

    Date 14/01/2014

    TriOptima today announced that it has resumed triReduce compression cycles within LCH.Clearnet’s SwapClear service, eliminating $16 trillion in notional principal with one EUR and one USD interest rate swap cycle in the last month of 2013. This brings the cumulative total of notional compressed by TriOptima and SwapClear to $204 trillion. 
     

  • London Stock Exchange: BBVA Joins MTS

    Date 14/01/2014

    • BBVA eighth founding dealer and liquidity provider
    • MTS Swaps is expected to go live in the coming weeks
    • Provides platform for buy-side to trade interest rate swaps
    • Will enhance transparency and efficiency in European interest rate swaps