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The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has (i) published its final report and guidelines on reporting under the Securities...

Recent focus of market participants in the debt markets has rightly been on both the immediate liquidity issues faced by businesses in...

As noted in our SFTR reporting update for buy-side firms, one of the obligations under SFTR is the need to report certain historic SFTs...

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

On 24 July 2020, the European Commission published a legislative proposal for a regulation to amend the Securitisation Regulation (the SR...

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

Yesterday, the FT published an article highlighting the recent trend for lenders to agree to the inclusion of ‘portability’ language in...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

With less than four months to go before the FCA turns off the supply of daily LIBOR (in its well-used form) for most of the 35...

The European Overnight Index, or EONIA, is due to permanently cease to be published from 3 January 2022, as EONIA does not meet the...