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The Japan Securities Clearing Corporation and its affiliates have been granted time-limited, no-action relief by the US Commodities Futures and Trading Commission to continue to conduct business despite the fact it has not yet been approved as a derivatives clearing organisation.
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The Basel Committee announced in December that it is seeking opinions on a proposal to establish a capital floor framework based on a standardised approach to credit risk, with the Committee arguing that a standardised capital floor is necessary to offset difficulties created by relying on bank’s internally modelled approaches. According to research from Deutsche Bank, Swedish institutions are likely to be some of the hardest-hit when the rules come in.
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The Markets in Financial Instruments Directive took a leap forward today with the publication of technical advice and a consultation by the European Securities and Markets Authority that set out the implementation of transparency and trading requirements to a broad range of asset classes and products. -
The Financial Conduct Authority is focusing its risk-based oversight efforts in four critical areas of the European Market Infrastructure Regulation for 2015 – trade reporting quality, clearing services provision continuity from clearing members, market readiness for the clearing obligation, and the bilateral requirements for non-cleared trades. This comes as February marks the first year anniversary of trade reporting under the regulation.
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The European Commission has agreed to postpone the start of the frontloading requirement for cleared interest rate derivatives as proposed in the regulatory technical standards submitted by the European Securities and Markets Authority.
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China’s renminbi qualified foreign institutional investors (RQFII) programme and the recently-launched Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect initiative have made some of the biggest contributions so far to tearing down the Great Wall surrounding China’s capital markets, while simultaneously providing a springboard for the broader adoption of China’s currency around the globe.
