The European Commission has published consultation for a draft Delegated Regulation supplementing the Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation as regards OTC derivatives identifying reference data to be used for the...more
CFTC Comparability Determination on EU Margin Requirements and a Common Approach on Trading Venues - On October 13, 2017, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission ("CFTC") announced determinations by the CFTC and the...more
On September 22, 2015, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published a speech, given by Steven Majoor, ESMA Chair, on the regulation and supervision of the derivatives market. Points of interest in the speech...more
The 2008 credit crisis was the beginning of an era of unprecedented government management of the capital markets. July 21, 2015 marked the fifth anniversary of the hallmark congressional response, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street...more
On September 10, the Over-the-Counter Derivatives Regulators Group (ODRG) issued a report providing an update to the Group of 20 (G20) on its progress in resolving over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives cross-border...more
On September 3, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published its advice to the European Commission (the Commission) on the equivalence of the regulatory regimes of Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore,...more