Tag: EMIR

August 04, 2014 BY Mike Fox

Breaking: CME Clearing Europe Receives EMIR authorisation

CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today announced CME Group's European clearing house, CME Clearing Europe, has today received authorization as a Central Counterparty Clearing House (CCP) under the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR). The authorisation covers all OTC derivatives and futures products currently cleared by CME Clearing Europe. CME Clearing…

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June 24, 2014 BY Mike Fox

ESMA publishes updated EMIR Q&A

The European Markets and Securities Authority has published today an update of its Questions & Answers (Q&A) document regarding the implementation of the European Markets Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR). The latest Q&As provide answers to frequently asked questions mostly in relation to the population of specific fields relating to reporting of data on exposures (i.e. collateral…

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May 21, 2014 BY Gerald Segal

ESMA posts updated Q&A on EMIR Implementation

On February 12, 2014, new EMIR trade reporting rules came into effect for European Forex, Binary and CFD brokers as mandated by ESMA. Well, it has been more than three months since then, and there remains some confusion as to what a broker's obligations really are, and what does and does not need to be…

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April 01, 2014 BY Gerald Segal

Interdealer broker GFI Group selects Lombard Risk for reporting

GFI Group has selected Lombard Risk to handle reporting amid changing regulatory demands Lombard Risk Management plc (Lombard Risk), a leading provider of integrated regulatory reporting, compliance and collateral management solutions for the financial services industry, is pleased to announce that GFI Group has selected Lombard Risk REPORTER for EBA Common Reporting for its operations in…

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March 26, 2014 BY Gerald Segal

Spin off and reorganization at BNP Paribas amid changes

French bank BNP Paribas dealing with ever changing regulatory environment BNP plans a separate derivatives clearing business, as part of its near term strategy to increase earnings at its fixed income business. BNP Paribas will shift its OTC client clearing and FX prime brokerage operations alongside its listed derivatives clearing business. The businesses had previously sat…

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March 06, 2014 BY Andrew Saks-McLeod

International Latency Race Continues As Mercury Minerva Upgrades HFT System With 25% Performance Increase

As the world of HFT and algorithmic trading continues to up its game, Mercury Minerva's release of Gunslinger-HFT 2.0 Achieves 750ns Event-Detection-to-Trade Latency using Solarflare AOE with Altera Stratix FPGA As regulatory authorities in many jurisdictions which are home to major FX market participants continue to bear down on high frequency trading (HFT) and automated trading…

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