Extra Territoriality



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September 4, 2013 - Editor

The European Securities and Market Authority (ESMA) has published its advice to the European Commission on the equivalence of the OTC derivatives regulatory regimes of

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September 2, 2013 - Editor

Dear all, The TOP Stories of last week: Craig Pirrong picks apart recent BIS study Craig Pirrong tears apart the logic behind a recent BIS

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August 27, 2013 - Editor

  Millions of hours have already been spent aligning Dodd-Frank and EMIR implementation in the OTC space.  However, in July, regulators changed the game.  By

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June 17, 2013 - Editor

In recent speeches at the Yale Club in NYC (Bart Chilton) and the OpRisk Europe Conference in London (Scott O'Malia) gave a very different view

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May 27, 2013 - Editor

Dear all, ISDA has published the 2013 Reporting Protocol to assist reporting under DFA and EMIR: http://bit.ly/Z9l5IW and ESMA has update their EMIR timeline reflecting currently ongoing

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April 22, 2013 - Editor

Posted on April 22, 2013 by Michael Beaton On 19 April 2013, HM Treasury published a letter signed by the finance ministers of Brazil, France,

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April 21, 2013 - Editor

A few days ago I did this post on Elisse Walter's speech on regulation of cross-border OTC derivatives. On April 18, 2013, the Japanese Financial Services Agency,

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April 11, 2013 - Editor

Elisse Walter, Chairman of SEC, (profile here) spoke in Washington D.C, at the American Bar Association Spring Meeting and explained the reason why a middle

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April 3, 2013 - Editor

Dear all, ISDA publishes March 2013 Dodd-Frank Protocol The International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) has published the ISDA March 2013 Dodd-Frank Protocol (DF Protocol

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April 1, 2013 - Editor

Contacts at BaFIN I met last week described negotiations being conducted within the European Parliament, which frankly mean far more work for regulatory compliance, than