The following article was written by Quinn Perrott, General Manager of regulatory and compliance solutions provider TRAction Fintech. Natural person identifiers are an important part of transaction reporting and contain some complexity in their application due to the variety of identifiers available. It’s widely-known that corporate counterparties need to be identified by their legal entity…
Read moreThe following article was written by Natallia Hunik, Global Head of Sales at Advanced Markets and Fortex, Inc. The global push for greater transparency in financial markets continues to gain traction with top tier regulators now requiring that all entities, engaged in trading financial markets, report their LEI (Legal Entity Identifier) number to regulatory repositories.…
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The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) announced that has published a Briefing on the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) as part of its efforts to raise industry awareness and facilitate compliance with the LEI requirements under MiFID II ahead of its 3 January 2018 launch. ESMA expects market participants to take all necessary steps to…
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The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has issued an Order filing and simultaneously settling charges against Citibank, N.A. (CBNA) and Citigroup Global Markets Limited (CGML) - all units of global banking giant Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C) - for failing to report Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) information for swap transactions properly to a Swap Data Repository (SDR), failing to…
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CySEC financial regulator CySEC has issued a circular regarding the requirement for regulated companies to acquire an LEI number, before EU MiFID II rules kick in on January 3, 2018. What is an LEI number? LEI, or Legal Entity Identifier, is a unique identifier for persons that are legal entities or structures including companies, charities and…
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The following article was written by Natallia Hunik, Global Head of Sales at Advanced Markets and Fortex, Inc. Welcome to a financial world, full of mysterious acronyms. LEI, CASS, ECP, EMIR, MiFIR, MTF, OTF… This industry just loves acronyms and MiFID II just gave us a whole lot of new ones to work with. One that…
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