21,175 results found

The European Parliament's Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) adopted its report on securities financing transactions (SFTs).

In this newsletter, we provide a snapshot of the principal European, US and selected international governance and securities law developments of interest to European corporates.

On March 4, 2016, a Delegated Regulation on regulatory technical standards for publication of prospectuses and the dissemination of advertisements was published in the Official Journal of the European Union.

The European Parliament adopted a non-legislative resolution to encourage the establishment and development of employee financial participation schemes.

Each report contains a review of achievements from 2015 as well as looking forward to the objectives and challenges which will be relevant in the coming year.

On June 16, 2015, the European Parliament published a press release announcing that its Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee (ECON) has adopted a resolution on the capital markets union (CMU).

Each of the draft reports contains a European Parliament legislative resolution on each of the Regulations which set out suggested amendments to the European Commission’s original proposals.

On May 11, 2015, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published a fourth consultation paper (ESMA/2015/807) on the clearing obligation under EMIR...

On May 6, 2015, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published guidelines (ESMA/2015/675) on the definitions of commodity derivatives...

The most recent updates reflect a Q&A relating to the valuation of OTC derivatives and are highlighted in yellow in the paper.

The European Parliament has agreed not to block requests from policy makers and regulators to postpone implementation of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive.

The consultation asks whether an EU private placement market should be created, with some of the same features as the successful US model for fixed rate debt instruments.

Corrections to the text of MiFIR (Regulation 600/2014) and MiFID II (2014/65/EU) have been published in the Official Journal of the EU.

In this newsletter, we provide a snapshot of the principal Asian, US, European and selected international governance and securities law developments of interest to Asian corporates and financial institutions.

On June 17, 2015, IOSCO issued a press release further to its recent annual conference, reporting that important organization and policy issues have been discussed...

On May 12, 2016, IOSCO announced that Mr. Ashley Alder had been appointed as the new Chair of the IOSCO board. Mr. Adler replaces Mr. Greg Medcraft, who has been chair for three years.

On June 17, 2015, the International Organization of Securities Commissions published a report on credible deterrence in the enforcement of securities regulation.

The results of the assessment are intended to be published in 2016.