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All roads lead to DLT: ECB advances Pontes and Appia
Europe’s push to enable settlement of DLT-based transactions in central bank money is moving from experimentation to implementation, with the European Central Bank launching a twin-track programme – Pontes and Appia – to bring tokenised settlement closer to reality. Speakers at FIA’s Brussels Forum earlier this month said the shift marks a significant step beyond recent exploratory trials, signalling growing confidence that distributed ledger technology can address long-standing inefficiencies in Europe’s collateral and settlement landscape. CONTINUE READING -
FIA responds to FCA consultation on improving the UK Transaction Reporting Regime
FIA has responded to the Financial Conduct Authority’s consultation on improving the UK Transaction Reporting Regime. FIA welcomes several positive elements within the proposals, including reduced back-reporting timelines and the removal of low-value reportable fields. At the same time, FIA highlights industry concerns relating to proposals on conditional single-sided reporting, which members believe are unlikely to deliver meaningful efficiency gains. CONTINUE READING -
FIA responds to EBA SREP guidelines consultation
FIA highlights issues for consideration by the EBA for the SREP Guidelines, with the aim of increasing proportionality and increase alignment with existing EU regulatory frameworks in the Operational Resilience space. CONTINUE READING -
FIA Forum Paris: Industry leaders discuss boosting efficiency in cleared derivatives markets
At FIA’s forum in Paris last month, market participants discussed the innovations, initiatives and challenges shaping efforts to make the trading and clearing of derivatives more resilient and efficient. CONTINUE READING -
FIA responds to EBA consultation on non-ICT third-party risks
FIA has responded to the European Banking Authority’s consultation on third party risk management for non-ICT services. In the response, FIA highlights issues for consideration by the EBA for the guidelines to more proportionately enhance third party oversight in the EU financial sector landscape. CONTINUE READING -
Transforming the Position Transfer Process
With the release of a new DMIST standard, the industry now has a framework to accelerate processing times, more efficiently collect the data needed to effect the position transfer and set the stage for automating the process. Representatives from brokerage firms, clients and clearinghouses will share their insight on how clients, clearing members and clearinghouses can work together to streamline the Position Transfer process and reduce risk. CONTINUE READING
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