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Oil Prices Edge Down Amid Little-Improved Supply Picture
March 29th, 2016
Oil prices edged down Monday, extending last week’s decline, as traders returned from a long holiday weekend to a market with little improvement in supply-and-demand conditions. The benchmark U.S. contract fell 0.2% to $39.39 a barrel on the New ...
ESMA to cooperate with South Korean Regulators on Central Counterparties (CCPs)
March 24th, 2016
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has established a Memorandum of Understanding (MoUs) under the European Markets Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) with the South Korean Financial Services Commission (FSC) and the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) respectively. The MoU establishes ...
Sachs probed in alleged Treasury rigging
March 21st, 2016
Washington’s probe into the alleged rigging of the $13 trillion US Treasurys market by Wall Street banks has narrowed its focus to a handful of firms — including Goldman Sachs, The Post has learned. In addition, European authorities have ...
What would ‘Brexit’ mean for Europe’s capital markets? Clifford Chance report analyses the legal and regulatory challenges
March 21st, 2016
AFME has today published a report, commissioned from Clifford Chance, which analyses the potential impact of a UK exit from the EU on Europe’s capital markets. The report, entitled “The UK Referendum: Challenges for Europe’s Capital Markets”, was written ...
These Eight EU Countries Are in the Budget Danger Zone
March 21st, 2016
When it comes to fiscal discipline in the European Union, three is the magic number. That’s a deficit limit of 3 percent of GDP, and five EU states will make the budgetary bad books this year by breaching that level, according ...
CFTC Approves Substituted Compliance Framework in Follow-up to the Recent Equivalence Agreement between the US and the EU
March 18th, 2016
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today unanimously approved a substituted compliance framework for dually-registered central counterparties (CCPs) located in the European Union (EU), together with a comparability determination with respect to certain EU rules. Today’s action follows ...
Better law-making agreement adopted by the Council
March 16th, 2016
The Council, the European Parliament and the Commission will cooperate more closely to ensure a better delivery to European citizens and businesses. That is the main purpose of a better law-making agreement adopted by the Council on 15 March ...
KPMG: Blockchain Could Be ‘Antidote’ to High Cost of Regulation
March 8th, 2016
As institutional interest in blockchain technology increases with bullish market predictions, professional services firms have been among a new wave of companies seeking to adapt existing products and services for the market. To date, Deloitte and PwC have been perhaps the most aggressive ...
Cyprus to Exit From Bailout Program
March 8th, 2016
Country follows Ireland, Spain and Portugal, despite not completing a final task Cyprus will successfully exit from its bailout program this month despite not completing one final task required by its creditors, eurozone finance ministers said Monday. The island-state’s exit ...
CySec imposed administrative fine to a Cyprus Investment Firm
March 8th, 2016
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec) has issued an announcement to inform public that on 21st December 2015, the Commission decided to impose an administrative fine of €5.000 to the Cypriot Investment Firm (CIF), Grow Wealth Assets Ltd. ...
