The European Commission has launched a consultation on the EU securitisation framework. The consultation covers the following issues:

• the...

The FCA has published its 2021/22 business plan. The publication of the plan was slightly delayed, which is perhaps unsurprising given...

EBA consults on risk retention

The European Banking Authority (EBA) has launched a consultation on draft regulatory technical standards...

The temporary clearing exemption for pension scheme arrangements, set out in article 89(1) of EU EMIR (as amended by EMIR Refit), has been

The second anniversary of EMIR Refit is this week, and with it comes the annual requirement for most financial counterparties and...

A recent FT Alphaville article considers the state of play in the ongoing transition from LIBOR and usefully focuses on the market...

EU law – current law

EMIR, as amended by EMIR Refit, provides that certain pension scheme arrangements are temporarily exempt from the...

On 15 March 2021, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) and the EFTA Surveillance Authority (ESA) announced that the...

Long trailed and now confirmed: the FCA has announced the future cessation or loss of representativeness of all LIBOR currency-tenor...

Following recent changes to EU law regarding derivatives margin and clearing and indications by the UK’s Prudential Regulation Authority...

Following the publication of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/236 (the Margin Amendment RTS) and Commission Delegated Regulation...

The International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) today announced the launch date for long-anticipated ISDA 2020 IBOR Fallbacks...

Following a long wait for certainty as to the position of reporting in public and private securitisations, the ESMA reporting templates...

ESMA has today published updated reporting instructions and XML schema (version 1.2.0) for the templates set out in the technical...

Along with the planned changes to EMIR trade reporting which came into force on 18 June 2020, entities that previously calculated (or...

In a move co-ordinated with ESMA, the short-selling bans in the six European Union countries that had imposed them will end at midnight...