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Systematic internaliser’s transparency - complicated puzzle

Category: MiFID
Published: 15 October 2017

 

It is difficult to capture all legal requirements with respect to transparency of the systematic internaliser’s quotes and transactions at a glance.

 

Firstly, the pre-trade and post-trade issues must be differentiated.

 

Another layer of complexity is introduced by distinct legal frameworks regulating systematic internaliser’s transparency for:

 

- bonds, structured finance products, emission allowances and derivatives, on the one hand, and


- shares, depositary receipts, ETFs, certificates and other similar financial instruments, on the other.

 

If to concentrate on products like bonds, structured finance products, emission allowances and derivatives firstly, it occurs that to determine transparency obligations we must separately analyse not only clients of the systematic internaliser and other market participants but also different categories of clients of the same systematic internaliser.

 

Liquid and illiquid markets have their specificities too.

 

To decode the respective requirements the diagram recently revealed by the ESMA is much helpful.

 

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Do not miss the NC RfG notification deadlines!

Category: Network Codes
Published: 29 September 2017

 

Considering the lapsing deadlines set by the Commission Regulation (EU) 2016/631 of 14 April 2016 establishing a network code on requirements for grid connection of generators (NC RfG) it may be useful, particularly for energy market participants carrying out significant investments in or the refurbishments of the generation fleet, to take account of some NC RfG notification requirements that may occur important.

 

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What does 'OTC equivalent' mean to you? Remarks on the dual nature of some key MiFID II definitions

Category: MiFID
Published: 04 September 2017

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Complicated nature of MiFID II is expressed, inter alia, by the fact that given OTC derivative contract can be, concurrently - under the same MiFID II Directive - equivalent and not equivalent to the on-venue products.

 

This is not only the theoretical, cognitive disharmony but impacts directly on the scope of the trading position that can be taken in the derivatives market.

 

 

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MiFID II position limits exemption - practical clues

Category: MiFID
Published: 25 August 2017

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The two facts that may occur important for many market participants as regards the MiFID II position limits are as follows:

 

1. if you do not expect to exceed position limit, there is no need to apply in advance for a position limits exemption;


2. you are not required to monitor the position limit compliance of your clients.

 

 

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Derivatives contracts on extra-EU trading venues at legal risk

Category: MiFID
Published: 04 June 2017

 

Annex to the ESMA's opinion decides whether any derivative contract concluded on third-country trading venue is covered by the EU position limits regime.

 

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Position limits - amended definition of a lot for energy products

Category: MiFID
Published: 03 June 2017

  

The European financial market's watchdog has updated on 31 May 2017 its Q&As on position limits framework under MiFID II.

 

The update relates to the ESMA's answer to the Question No. 2 (the original version thereof was issued on 19 December 2016) and deals with the problem of defining a lot in derivatives where the underlying asset is electricity.

 

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The EU regulations becoming strange

Category: MiFID
Published: 02 June 2017

 

It is clear now that according to the EU financial regulator opinion the first notification under Article 2(1)(j) of MiFID II must be made by January 3rd of 2018.

 

Given that the calculation period to be covered by this notification includes also the year 2017 it is quite astonishing.

 

The objective lack of credible market data necessary to be aggregated in the calculations for the purposes of the above notification also did not prevent the regulator from requiring of market participants to do the impossible.

 

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Who's in charge in the electricity market?

Category: Energy market
Published: 09 May 2017

 

If the Winter Energy Package was adopted as proposed by the European Commission, the EU Member States, national Transmission System Operators, as well as the domestic regulatory authorities would be deprived of the decisive influence over the bidding zone's borders.

 

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Ancillary services in the EU uniform electricity market and the State aid rules - uneasy coexistence

Category: Energy market
Published: 30 April 2017

 

Ancillary service in the electricity market can be easily misunderstood as the capacity mechanism, notwithstanding the fact the legal effects from the State aid treatment point of view, are entirely divergent.

 

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OTF's discretionary order execution - a cause of concern?

Category: MiFID
Published: 28 April 2017

 

Lower costs of collateral, direct access to the settlement system - all this due to the so-called "REMIT carve-out" - make the OTF (Organised Trading Facility) particularly interesting trading opportunity in the EU energy wholesale market under MiFID II (starting as from 3 January 2018).

 

The underlying fact is that physically-settled instruments covered by REMIT (wholesale energy products within the REMIT terminology - mainly electricity and gas) traded on an OTF do not qualify as MiFID II financial instruments and are consequently outside the scope of MiFID, EMIR and the CRD IV package.

 

However, while regulated markets and MTFs have non-discretionary rules for the execution of transactions, the operator of an OTF carries out order execution on a discretionary basis subject, where applicable, to the pre-transparency requirements and best execution obligations.

 

The way the discretion will be exercised by the OTFs operators is the most troublesome element, the regulators, market participants and the OTFs themselves currently intensively consider.

 

Why is this so important?

 

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Certificate for passing the MiFID II Ancillary Activity Tests

Category: MiFID
Published: 22 March 2017

Certificate for passing the MiFID II Ancillary Activity Tests

Firmness of allocated cross-zonal capacity - who will earn €9 million per hour?

Category: Energy market
Published: 16 March 2017

Firmness of allocated cross-zonal capacity - who will earn 9 million per hour

  1. Can I trade in financial instruments as from 2018?
  2. MiFID II position limits - exposures in contracts traded outside of Europe do not qualify for netting
  3. SI can stream prices to clients
  4. CCP's equivalence regime in danger?

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