SEC’s proposals create competitive opportunities
Responses to the wide ranging proposals posited by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in US equity markets last week have raised questions but...
EC’s new Capital Markets Union Action Plan drives equity consolidated tape forward
The European Commission has published a new Action Plan to boost the European Union's Capital Markets Union (CMU) over the coming years. The EU's...
SEC requests comment on evolution of buy-side internal crossing rules
The US Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Investment Management Staff has published a statement to elicit feedback on ways to enhance its regulatory...
ESMA: Hundreds of bond funds suspended redemptions in record-breaking March sell-off
A new report by the European Securities and Markets Authority has laid out how systemic risk might be created through funds’ inability to process...
TMPG: Better US Treasuries data needed for effective policy
The New York Federal Reserve’s Treasury Market Practices Group (TMPG) has published a white paper on ‘Data Availability and Transparency in the US Treasury...
SEC Fixed Income Committee: Debate on liquidity metrics
By Flora McFarlane.
The often narrow focus of liquidity metrics in research was raised as a concern by the first meeting of the Security and...
ESMA corrects SI bond ranking to place BNP Paribas as second in Europe
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has republished its ESMA Annual Statistical Report, now stating that the largest systematic internalisers (SIs) for bond...
Editorial: Oversight of US bond markets is broken
Oversight of the US bond markets is broken. The world’s sixth largest bank by assets, JP Morgan, was able to manipulate the US Treasury...
AFME urges co-legislators to ensure EU market attractiveness as MiFIR trilogues begin
The Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) has issued a comment in response to the vote of the European Parliament's Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) on...
FILS 2022: Could ESMA ban RFQs?
The future of the request for quote (RFQ) protocol was being challenged both on and off stage at the Fixed Income Leaders’ Summit in...
