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Industry Supports Pre-Cessation LIBOR Fallbacks, Finds ISDA
ISDA has found that a significant majority of practitioners would prefer to include pre-cessation and permanent cessation fallbacks without optionality or flexibility. The feedback comes in response to a consultation launched by ISDA in February which asked whether the 2006 ISDA Definitions should be amended to include fallbacks that would apply to all covered derivatives…
Recorded Webinar: Best Practices for Integrated Regulatory Reporting Across Multiple Jurisdictions
The regulatory reporting obligations of financial institutions have mushroomed in scale over the past decade, leaving firms facing a raft of different requirements to provide increasingly granular metrics on their transaction, valuation and collateral data to a number of regulatory authorities. While many of these reports draw from the same core data set, the nuanced differences…
ESMA Approves DTCC as SFTR Trade Repository
DTCC’s Global Trade Repository (GTR) service is now approved for SFT reporting after an announcement last week by ESMA extended registration approval to four new trade repositories including the DTCC Derivatives Repository, along with the LSE’s UnaVista TRADEcho, Krajowy Depozyt Papierów Warto?ciowych, and REGIS-TR. The SFT will be offered out of DTCC’s European trade repository,…
ASC Technologies Launches Compliance Recording Function for Microsoft Teams
Germany’s ASC Technologies, a global solutions provider for multi-channel recording and analytics, this week launched a new compliance recording solution for Microsoft Teams, as software providers scramble to adapt and appeal to the world’s new way of remote working. ASC Recording Insights is a native app that records and archives the entire compliance-relevant internal and…
FCA Warns Firms on LIBOR Transition
The FCA has doubled down on its plans to phase out LIBOR by the end of 2021, warning in a 29 April statement that “it remains the central assumption that firms cannot rely on LIBOR being published after the end of 2021.” Although the regulator recognises the challenges presented by the current operating environment under…
Relief Over SFTR Alignment Following Treasury Statement
The UK Treasury released a statement last week confirming plans to align post-Brexit legislation with the EU’s Securities Financing Transactions Regulation (SFTR), the first phase reporting requirements of which are due to come into force in July, 2020 (delayed from the original 13 April deadline to to COVID-19 pressures). The regulation requires firms to report…
LIBOR Transition and COVID-19: Could a Delay be on the Cards?
By Navin Rauniar, Partner in charge of LIBOR Transition, TCS. Back in March, RegTech Insight explored the relation of FRTB and the LIBOR Transition. There is a strong relationship between both initiatives, and we now find COVID-19 adding further complexity to this relation, especially between the recent delays to the regulatory landscape and the impact…
SEC Delays CAT Reporting Due to COVID-19 Concerns
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has confirmed a delayed start for Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) reporting, upon condition of compliance with certain other obligations, including milestones related to testing and releases of CAT functionality, as well as all other compliance dates for broker-dealer reporting to the CAT. Although the original reporting deadline for…
Industry Associations Warn that COVID-19 Could Cause Problems for SRD II
The International Securities Lending Association (ISLA) has joined forces with a multitude of other industry associations to urge a 12-month delay in the implementation of the regulation, laid out in an open letter to the European Commission. Currently scheduled to come into force on 3 September 2020, the regulation is an amendment to SRD I…
ESMA and MAS Sign MOU on Singapore’s Financial Benchmarks
ESMA, the EU’s securities markets regulator, has signed an agreement with the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) completing the process to allow the use of Singapore’s financial benchmarks in the EU. Under the MOU, ESMA and MAS will share information and supervisory activities on Singapore-regulated financial benchmarks. The signing of the MOU follows the European…