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  • Significant Setback: Protection Of EU Pension Savers To Be Reduced By The EU Parliament?

    Date 15/12/2015

    Workplace pension savings play an increasingly important role in supplementing declining public pension benefits in Europe. For this reason it is of crucial importance that the prudential framework for European Institutions for Occupational Retirement Provision (IORPs) or pension funds, the IORP II Directive, be balanced and up to the task. 

  • European Power Exchange To Extend Its Services To Other European Regions - EPEX SPOT Designated As NEMO On Its Markets

    Date 15/12/2015

    The European Power Exchange EPEX SPOT has been designated by the national regulatory authorities in the EU members states Germany, France, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Austria and Luxembourg as Nominated Electricity Market Operator (NEMO). The EU Regulation establishing a guideline on Capacity Allocation and Congestion Management (CACM), in force since 14 August 2015, obliges all EU member states to officially designate an Electricity Market Operator for the Day-Ahead and Intraday markets within four months. Its objective is to promote effective competition in the generation, trading and supply of electricity, to ensure the optimal use of the transmission system while respecting the need for a fair and orderly market and price formation. The decision by the Belgian national authority to designate a NEMO is expected soon. Switzerland, also covered by EPEX SPOT but not being part of the European Union, has not implemented the EU Regulation for the time being.

  • ESMA Publishes Updated AIFMD Q&A

    Date 15/12/2015

    The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published an updated questions and answers on the application of the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD). The Q&A include a new questions and answers on the depositary liability regime.

  • ICE Futures U.S. Achieves Daily Volume Record In Mini MSCI Complex - Records Set In Mini MSCI EAFE Index And Mini MSCI Emerging Markets Index

    Date 15/12/2015

    Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE: ICE), the leading global network of exchanges and clearing houses, announced today that ICE Futures U.S. achieved a daily volume record in the mini MSCI® futures complex on December 14, 2015. Within the portfolio, daily volume records were also set in the mini MSCI EAFE index future, which tracks equities in the developed markets of Europe and Asia, and the mini MSCI Emerging Markets index future.

  • UK Financial Conduct Authority Consults On Aspects Of The Markets In Financial Instruments Directive II Implementation

    Date 15/12/2015

    The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has today published its first consultation paper on the implementation of the new European Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) in the UK.  MiFID was originally introduced in 2007 and the revised regime aims to strengthen investor protection, increase market resilience, reduce systemic risks and increase the overall efficiency and transparency of financial markets.