FCA



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August 7, 2018 - Editor

The reduction of the IM threshold from €750bn to €8bn will result in a jump of ten times the number of firms in scope.

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August 6, 2018 - Editor

Although the FX Global Code isn’t mandatory, many firms have already signed up. Increasingly it’s looking like becoming the industry norm. In the UK, the

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March 6, 2015 - Editor

The dust has settled from the initial fall out from retail brokerages going out of business as a result of the SNB's abrupt removal of

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March 4, 2015 - Editor

  Risk magazine editor Duncan Wood makes a good point in his article The invisible incentives of clearing (subs. required) – the FSB / BIS ignored leverage

Featured image for “Will leverage ratio cause an FCM concentration crisis?”

March 4, 2015 - Editor

  Risk magazine editor Duncan Wood makes a good point in his article The invisible incentives of clearing (subs. required) – the FSB / BIS ignored leverage

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February 17, 2014 - Editor

I was going through some articles these days to get the Market's heartbeat and find out more about the first day of Reporting when I

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February 17, 2014 - Editor

Let Weak Banks Die, Says Eurozone Super-Regulator The eurozone's new chief banking regulator has warned that some of the region's lenders have no future and

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October 15, 2013 - Editor

Dear all, The TOP Stories of last week: SEFs have started trading… first insights Tabb Group says that the bulk of SEF trades were conducted on

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October 8, 2013 - Editor

Dear all, This week, as started last week, also sees this newsletter spread over several pages – according the regular headers you are accustomed to.

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August 12, 2013 - Editor

Dear all, The TOP Stories of last week: Updated EMIR Q&As from ESMA ESMA have updated their EMIR Q&As bringing the document now to 51 pages but