Tag: European Commission
Bloomberg Terminal outage: “Fortunately it was a quiet day”
Bloomberg Terminals went dark this morning, with traders reporting outages worldwide.
The terminal costs between US$24k and US$27k per year.
Eric Boess, global head of trading...
Origination: EU tops global bond issuance in March
The European Union saw the biggest increase in bond issuance globally in March, reaching US$30.62 billion.
The bulk of this came from three bond issuances...
Eurex launches EU bond futures
Eurex will offer futures on European Commission-issued EU bonds from 10 September.
The EU bond futures (FBEU) will be physically deliverable contracts with a 6%...
Credit Suisse and Crédit Agricole lose EC fine appeals
Credit Suisse and Crédit Agricole have lost their appeals to avoid €28.4 in fines for competition rule infringement, initially imposed by the European Commission...
EU brings clarity to interim MiFIR data and reporting obligations
The European Commission has published a draft notice on the transitional provisions of the Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR) review.
Designed to bring clarity...
Cartel cases in SSA market continue as Rabobank fined €26.6m
The European Commission has fined Rabobank €26.6 million for participating in a cartel trading Euro-denominated bonds
The Commission alleges that between 2006 and 2016 Rabobank...
EMIR refit: get ahead of upcoming changes
By Joanne Salkeld at MarketAxess
The European Commission's regulatory fitness and performance programme (REFIT) is aimed at simplifying EU legislation and reducing any unnecessary regulatory...
Are European exchanges allowed to rival size of US markets?
The European Commission (EC) has opened an in-depth investigation into the proposed acquisition of Refinitiv by the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) under the...
EC: ESMA should run consolidated tape for fixed income
By Flora McFarlane.
An expert group organised by the European Commission to analyse the European corporate bond market has issued recommendations aiming to make issuance...
