On 29 April 2016, FIA, ASIFMA and ISDA submitted a joint response to Australia's Council of Financial Regulators consultation paper on financial benchmarks regulatory reform.
This Special Report is the sixth in the FIA and FIA Europe’s series covering specific areas of the European Securities and Markets Authority’s consultation process for the implementation of the recast Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (2014/65/EU) and Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (Regulation 600/2012) (“MiFIR”), which together are referred to as “MiFID II” and come into effect on 3 January 2017.
U.S. regulators are pushing ahead with reforms to financial market benchmarks, working with the private sector to develop benchmarks for interest rate markets that could serve as alternatives to Libor.
FIA submitted its response to HM Treasury’s Fair and Effective Markets Review Recommendations on Benchmarks, with proposals on seven benchmarks including the LBMA gold and silver fixes and ICE Brent Futures.
This Special Report is the third in the FIA and FIA Europe’s series covering specific areas of the European Securities and Markets Authority’s (“ESMA”) consultation process for the implementation of the recast Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (“MiFID II”) and Regulation (“MiFIR”).
The London Metal Exchange’s LME Clear, the exchange’s selfclearing platform, chose The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation as its partner for LMEwire, a new reporting service that is scheduled to go live in early 2014 to meet trade reporting requirements under the European Market Infrastructure Regulation.
