Trapped by REMIT
- Category: REMIT
Imagine a manufacturer who who consumes 595 MWh yearly. He sleeps well since convinced that REMIT itself, REMIT registration and operationally burdensome REMIT transactions and orders reporting are beyond the scope of his affairs. And suddenly somebody comes and says, "You have serious legal problems, you are not credible business partner". What's the point?
Flawed inception of mandatory clearing
- Category: EMIR
Financial counterparties and alternative investment funds (AIFs) which are not clearing members and which have a lower level of activity in OTC derivatives (to be measured against a quantitative threshold) will likely benefit from extended deadlines for mandatory clearing.
MiFID II own account exemption modified
- Category: MiFID
MiFID II has not entered into force yet, but already became substantially amended. What has changed? Key issue - exemptions.
Also proprietary traders must prosecute market abuse under MAR
- Category: MAD/MAR
REMIT and MAR differ significantly in their market abuse prosecution regimes when it comes to the obligations of proprietary traders. Temporarily?
MAR publication channels: ESMA vs. EC
- Category: MAD/MAR
What was the essence of the dispute between the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) and the European Commission as regards the inside information publications under REMIT and MAR?
Does it influence on the ongoing regulatory practice?
The EU position limits framework - is this manageable issue?
- Category: MiFID
1,500 vs. 28 - this is the scale of discrepancy between the volumes of position limits frameworks in the EU and the US.