The Autorité des Marchés Financiers, France's market regulator, announced in January that it is launching an effort to modernize its system for monitoring market activity and enhance its ability to detect, analyze and investigate suspicious activity.
CONTINUE READINGOn Feb. 17 FIA submitted a letter to the Federal Reserve Board requesting more careful study before the regulator moves forward on proposed requirements that would restrict bank activities in physical commodities.
CONTINUE READINGThe Financial Stability Board is making progress toward its goal of establishing global standards for resolving clearinghouses that have passed the point of recovery.
CONTINUE READINGThe Monetary Authority of Singapore is moving closer to allowing international clearing firms to become members of local clearinghouses without having to establish a local presence.
CONTINUE READINGThe European Commission on July 1 granted equivalence to 15 U.S.-based designated contract markets that operate under the oversight of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
CONTINUE READINGThe Bourse de Montréal has introduced a new real-time order feed to give clients more detail on all derivatives products traded on the exchange.
CONTINUE READINGMembers of Congress from both sides of the aisle are questioning a proposal from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission that would give the agency the ability to get access to the computer code that underpins automated trading systems.
CONTINUE READINGOn March 21, Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing announced that it has launched a client clearing service ahead of the first phase of mandatory clearing in Hong Kong set for July 1.
CONTINUE READINGThe London Metal Exchange in February unveiled its newly built Ring, the exchange's open-outcry trading floor, after relocating to Finsbury Square in London.
CONTINUE READINGFour leading market operators are pressing the European Securities and Markets Authority to take a strict approach in drafting the regulatory technical standards to implement the open access provisions in MiFID II.
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