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ESMA reports on Shadow Banking, Leverage and Pro-Cyclicality
October 5th, 2016
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has issued today a report on securities financing transactions (SFTs), leverage and pro-cyclicality in the EU’s financial markets. ESMA’s report assesses whether the use of SFTs leads to the build-up of leverage which is ...
Financial regulators tell G20 to focus on legal gaps
August 31st, 2016
Bank regulators are better prepared to cope with the potential failure of a major bank but more work needs to be done on the finer detail of legal agreements covering bank resolution and derivatives trade reporting, the Financial Stability ...
Reports from CPMI-IOSCO advance regulatory agenda on central counterparties
August 16th, 2016
Reports published today by the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI) and the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) are aimed at enhancing the resilience of central counterparties (CCPs), an important move towards completing the regulatory agenda for ...
The ECB and shadow banking
April 19th, 2016
Markets have fully adjusted to a financial world which reflects the leadership and management of money by central banks, and are increasingly frightened of any prospect of their control failing. Every time the system stumbles, the response has been ...
Volkswagen’s U.S. CEO Leaves Suddenly After ‘Mutual Agreement’
March 10th, 2016
Horn retained dealers’ support even as VW sales fell in U.S. `What could he have done, besides give cars away?’: Analyst Michael Horn, leader of the Volkswagen brand in the U.S., abruptly left the automaker as its American sales ...
Forex Broker Ironfx Australia Becomes Gvs Au, Trades As Fxgiants
March 8th, 2016
IronFX Global Australia, the Australian unit of forex brokerage IronFX Global, has been renamed GVS (AU) PTY, according to data published on the website of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). The company now operates under the FXGiants trading brand, according to ...
EBS BrokerTec sees further growth in eFix Matching
February 23rd, 2016
EBS BrokerTec, ICAP’s market-leading electronic foreign exchange (FX) and fixed income business, announces today that it has launched 12 new daily WMR fixes through the eFix Matching solution, with plans to provide electronic execution for all 24 hourly WMR ...
Bank of Canada Announces Future Changes to its Published Foreign Exchange Rate Data
February 17th, 2016
The Bank of Canada today announced that, effective 1 March 2017, it will make a series of changes to the number, frequency and calculation methodology of its published foreign exchange (FX) rates. Although these changes will not come into ...
ESMA to cooperate with Mexican and South African Regulators on CCPs
January 27th, 2016
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has established two Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) under the European Markets Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) with the Mexican Comisión Nacional Bancaria y de Valores (CNBV) and the South African Financial Servcies Board (FSB) ...
S.Korean antitrust agency probes Volkswagen over emissions ads
January 22nd, 2016
South Korea’s antitrust regulator is probing Volkswagen AG over its advertising claims on emissions from its cars, an official at the agency told Reuters on Friday. The Fair Trade Commission official said a probe is under way without elaborating. ...
