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  • UnaVista Extends Alliance With IHS Markit To Cover SFTR Transaction Reporting

    Date 21/03/2018

    • Partner programme launches new model for consulting firms covering MiFID II, EMIR and SFTR
    • Securities Financing Transactions Regulation (SFTR) expected to go live in Q2 2019
    • SFTR will require firms to report transactions including repo trades to an approved EU trade repository 

  • Brown Rudnick Alert: OFAC Takes Initial Steps To Deal With Questions About The Application Of US Sanctions To Cryptocurrency

    Date 21/03/2018

    As anticipated, the Department of Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has begun to pull back the covers on its views toward cryptocurrencies (also known as "virtual currencies") within the existing regulatory landscape of US sanctions. Virtual currencies are “digital representations of value” that can function as a means for online payments. These transactions are often secured and verified by encryption and thus referred to as “cryptocurrencies.” With the increasing ubiquity of virtual currencies like Bitcoin, questions have emerged as to their status under existing OFAC rules. 

  • ESMA Clarifies Treatment Of Packages Under MiFIR’S Trading Obligation For Derivatives

    Date 21/03/2018

    The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has issued today an opinion providing further guidance on the treatment of packages under the trading obligation for derivatives which the Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR) introduced on 3 January 2018.

  • PEGAS Records Its First TTF Option

    Date 21/03/2018

    PEGAS, the pan-European gas trading platform operated by Powernext, has registered the first trade on its new OTC Options registration service. The trade was a Put on the TTF Summer 2018 contract at a strike price of 17 Euros/MWh, with an Options premium of 0,290 Euros. It was brokered by Marex Spectron and amounted to a total of 527,040 MWh.

  • ESMA Chair Steven Maijoor On CMU, Brexit And ESA Review – What’s Next?

    Date 21/03/2018

    Steven Maijoor, ESMA Chair, delivered the opening remarks at the BVI 2018 Annual Reception in Brussels on the evening of 20 March.