Post-trade transparency
Banks warn it’s too early for an OTC swaps consolidated tape
Market participants say Isin difficulties need to be resolved in order to create a usable tape
Banks hail UK plan to pare scope of taxing pre-trade reporting
UK wants to exempt bonds and OTC derivatives from Mifid rules on pre-trade transparency
UK aims to beat EU in Mifid swaps reporting stakes
UK follows up proposed EU solution to confusion over post-trade transparency with its own fix
UK tipped to take lead on consolidated tape provision
Fixed income focus could pip European Union in race to provide market data golden source
EC drafting proposal for derivatives consolidated tape
Commission official says beta version ready for testing in 2023 will also include equities, bonds and ETFs
The US Treasury’s great market makeover
Changes to regulation will need to take account of evolving market structure
Esma plan ‘won’t help’ fix Mifid swaps data problem
Dealers say proposal to force disclosure of all big-bank OTC derivatives trades won’t improve data
Some dealers are much cheaper than others; now you know who
New system will name the three cheapest dealers for liquid securities and show how much they cost
Mifid transparency battle pits dealers against non-banks
Dealers fight to preserve reporting exemptions, but prop traders want US-style regime
Botched copy: Esma delivers cut and paste pastiche of Trace
Mifid transparency mishmash misses key aspects of US system it emulates, say dealers
UK and EU regulators diverging on double volume caps
Rule that limits anonymous equities trading to be reviewed in UK, but EC has bigger fish to fry
Corporate bond markets need more transparency – not less
Regulators should do more to promote pre- and post-trade transparency in corporate bonds
CFTC block trade plan gets cold shoulder
Industry divided over swaps reform proposal, and advisory committee casts doubt on need for it
Transparency vs clarity: the Mifid swaps conundrum
Participants want better OTC transparency, but say Esma’s efforts at clarity could muddy the picture
Mifid’s pre-trade transparency is ‘a failed experiment’
Market participants say benefits of altering pre-trade transparency rules are small
‘Improving’ Mifid post-trade transparency splits markets
Mooted changes to Europe’s transparency regime are dividing markets – largely along functional lines
Mifid’s free data mirage vexes markets
Users struggle to access post-trade data despite European regulator’s push for transparency
Why Europe’s markets might need Mifid III
Lawmakers leaning towards small-scale review, others call for fuller rewrite
CFTC set to eliminate post-trade name give-up
Practice has been a mainstay of Sef trading but chairman Tarbert wants it gone
We’ve been here before: LEIs take two
LEIs are catching on in Asia
Mifid transparency regime snares illiquid bonds
Banks and lobbyists call on EC to remove emerging market bonds from real-time transparency
Brexit to deliver further blow to Mifid transparency data
Market participants say duplicate reports in UK and EU will result in misleading public data
Firms fear Mifid-style reporting crunch for Brexit day one
Operational clarity still needed to fully implement system changes in time for April 1
Mifid data publishers drag feet on Esma guidelines
Four publishers yet to align post-trade data format with Q&A issued eight months ago