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UK Financial Conduct Authority Updates on Consolidated Tapes for Equities and Bonds

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The FCA has published two new webpages on its work establishing consolidated tapes for equities and bonds. The final FCA framework for the bond CT was published in December 2023, along with a consultation on proposed payments...more

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UK Finalizes Framework for Consolidated Tape for Bonds

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Following its consultation last year, the U.K. Financial Conduct Authority has published its final framework for a consolidated tape for bonds. MiFID II introduced requirements for a CT for transactions in equity and...more

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Regulation Round Up - December 2023

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Welcome to the Regulation Round Up, a regular bulletin highlighting the latest developments in UK and EU financial services regulation. Key developments in December 2023: 21 December - UK / Swiss Regulatory...more

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A Long Hot Summer: Effective Variable Rates Subject to Increase (Irrespective of General Market Conditions)

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There are major issues arising from the phaseout of the US Dollar London InterBank Offered Rate (LIBOR), which will soon become apparent in connection with LIBOR’s fast-approaching end date. This will dramatically impact many...more

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Bond Traders Face Ban for Market Abuse in the UK

The Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) has banned and fined three bond traders for placing large-sized orders for future contracts in relation to Italian government bonds that they did not intend to execute, while...more

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International Capital Markets Newsletter - July 2022, Issue 6: The Growing Trend of Gender Bonds in 2022

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The Growing Trend of Gender Bonds in 2022 - Sustainable investing has experienced significant growth in recent years due to a continued and increasing focus on environmental, social and governance (“ESG”) factors by...more

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IRS Promotes Use of Fallback Language to Assist with Libor, IBOR Transition

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The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released Revenue Procedure 2020-44 to assist the market's transition from the London Interbank Offered Rate (Libor) and other interbank offered rates (IBORs) to alternative reference rates...more

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Preparing for the end of the Brexit transition period – ten points relevant to mainstream debt capital market issuance

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Whilst Brexit formally happened when the UK left the European Union (EU) on 31 January 2020 (exit day), it has been treated as a Member State under Union law during the transition period established by the EU-UK Withdrawal...more

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Regulators determined to keep SOFR transition on track

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The disruption to capital markets caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has not shifted the overall timeline of regulators and industry bodies for the replacement of US dollar LIBOR with SOFR by the end of 2021. With the expected...more

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LIBOR and the transition to SONIA: compounding the problem?

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In 2012, the Wheatley Review recommended reform rather than replacement of LIBOR, on the basis that a transition to a new benchmark would pose an unacceptably high risk of financial instability. Reform came in the form of a...more

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Your Daily Dose of Financial News

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Lack of workable replacement (so far, at least) be damned—the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority has announced that [the scandal-plagued] Libor will be phased out by 2021 in favor of “transaction-based benchmarks”....more

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Orrick's Financial Industry Week in Review

CFTC Announces Proposal to Amend the Definition of "Material Terms" - On September 10, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Division announced that it will publish in the Federal Register a proposed amendment to...more

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