FIA’s Magazine of the Global Futures, Options and Cleared Swaps Markets
The European Energy Exchange has acquired Grexel Systems, a leading European energy certificate registry and a key service provider to the clean power industry. The acquisition, which was...
With the U.K. set to leave the European Union in March, Germany is becoming a more important center for financial institutions doing business in the EU. This raises the profile of BaFin, Germany’s...
In July, Société Générale reached an agreement with Commerzbank to purchase its Equity Markets & Commodities business, a move that will bring additional customers into the French bank's...
It wasn't long ago many participants in the European carbon markets thought these markets were essentially done. The EU's Emission Trading Scheme was flooded with carbon credits, prices had fallen...
The European Central Bank is seeking to harmonize efforts across Europe to use "ethical hacking" to test the financial sector's resilience to cyber-attacks. The central bank published a document...
On Jan. 8, the European Securities and Markets Authority opened a public consultation on draft guidelines that aim to clarify the implementation of anti-procyclicality provisions for central...
On Feb. 12, the U.K. Financial Conduct Authority published a report on the supervision of algorithmic trading in wholesale markets. The report highlighted examples of good and bad practices...
On Feb. 2, the European Securities and Markets Authority published the results of its second EU-wide stress tests of EU central counterparties. ESMA tested the resilience of 16 European CCPs with...
In the first weeks of January, as the main provisions of Europe's MiFID II reforms took effect, multiple regulators put a hold on a requirement that derivatives exchanges and clearinghouses...
On Dec. 11, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued interpretative guidance addressing a potential compliance issue for intermediaries that do business with investment managers in Europe...
