On February 22, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published its final report on guidelines to clarify common procedures and methodologies for the supervisory review and evaluation process of central counterparties (CCPs) by their national competent authorities (NCAs) (the Report).
The proposed guidelines addressed in the Report by ESMA include:
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On October 27, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published a press release announcing it had added UK venues to the list of third-country venues in respect of the opinions on post-trade transparency and position limits under Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR) and the revised Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) (the Press Release).
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On September 21, the European Commission (Commission) adopted a time-limited decision to provide financial market participants 18 months within which they should reduce their exposure to UK central counterparties (CCPs) (the Decision).
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On July 14, the European Commission (the Commission) adopted several implementing and delegated acts relating to central counterparties (CCPs) established in third countries (TCs) under the so-called “EMIR 2.2” revisions to the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (the Delegated Acts).
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On June 11, the European Commission (the Commission) published two consultations in relation to the proposed delegated acts (Delegated Acts) on tiering and comparable compliance (the Tiering Consultation and the Comparable Compliance Consultation, together the Consultations) for third-country central counterparties (TC CCPs) as part of its review of the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR).
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On March 24, a draft copy of the Over the Counter Derivatives, Central Counterparties and Trade Repositories (Amendment etc. and Transitional Provision) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (the Regulations) was published and laid before Parliament with an explanatory memorandum.
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On February 26, Fabio Panetta, Executive Board Member at the European Central Bank (ECB), gave a speech on cross-border co-operation within the central counterparty (CCP) community. The speech was given at the Second Joint Bundesbank/ECB/Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Conference on CCP Risk Management.
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On December 12, amendments to the European Market Infrastructure Regulations (EMIR), known as “EMIR 2.2”, were published in the Official Journal of the European Union, which is available here. This means that, as expected, the provisions of EMIR 2.2 will go into effect on January 1, 2020. EMIR 2.2 is different from EMIR…
On November 11, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published three sets of technical advice on tiering, comparable compliance and fees charged to third-country central counterparties (TC-CCPs). The advice is directed towards the European Commission (EC) and concerns the revised European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR 2.2).
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On September 13, the CFTC and European Commission issued a joint statement reaffirming their mutual commitment to transatlantic cooperation among regulators (Joint Statement). The Joint Statement was released following a September 5 meeting between CFTC Chairman Heath Tarbert and John Berrigan, Deputy Director General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union (DG FISMA), European Commission.
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