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US SEC requests comment on MMF reform options

05 February 2021 US
Reporter: Natalie Turner

The SEC has requested industry comment on potential reforms to improve the resilience of money market funds in the wake of the 2020 COVID-disruption

Korea exchange launches task force in pursue illegal short selling crackdown

05 February 2021 South Korea
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The 鈥渟pecial team鈥� will be formed this month and aims to strengthen oversight of short sellers, while market makers also face a host of new stringent trading restrictions

South Korea extends short selling ban

04 February 2021 South Korea
Reporter: Drew Nicol

FSC chair Eun Sung-soo has confirmed the ban will not expire in March but will remain until 2 May, at which point short selling may resume on KOSPI 200 and KOSDAQ 150 stocks

ISLA: CSDR buy-ins may deter asset owners from lending

03 February 2021 UK
Reporter: Drew Nicol

To avoid damaging market liquidity and stability, the trade body suggests the CSDR settlement discipline regime should be split in two, with cash penalties going live in February and the buy-ins held pending a 鈥渋n-depth assessment"

CSDR consultation: EACH calls for delays to settlement discipline regime

03 February 2021 Brussels
Reporter: Becky Bellamy

EACH explains that a delay to CSDR鈥檚 SDR would provide market infrastructures and other market participants sufficient time to implement and would also avoid unnecessary duplicative implementation costs

CSDR consultation is over, ICMA underscores need for mandatory buy-in reforms

02 February 2021 UK
Reporter: Drew Nicol

ICMA has presented a 鈥榳aterfall鈥� of proposals for implementing the SDR, based on its members鈥� assessment of what it considers most optimal in terms of minimising disruption to Europe鈥檚 bonds markets while still attaining the objectives of CSDR

ESMA updates its SFTR Q&A to clarify reporting rules

01 February 2021 France
Reporter: Natalie Turner

The revised Q&A addresses errors in event reporting, updates to records of outstanding reports by the counterparties and operational aspects of reporting by financial counterparties on behalf of small NFCs

Qomply-Bovill partner for MiFIR reporting solution

01 February 2021 UK
Reporter: Natalie Turner

The partners aim to save firms from FCA fines after 362 firms were found to have submitted errors and omissions in their MiFID II reports between January and the end of October last year.

Congresswoman Maxine Waters: 鈥淧redatory short selling of pension funds must stop鈥�

29 January 2021 US
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The chair of the House Committee on Financial Services is launching a campaign to stop 鈥減rivate funds preying on the pension funds of hard-working Americans鈥� in the wake of the GameStop short squeeze

EU accepts US CCP regulatory equivalency

27 January 2021 Belgium
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Allison Herren Lee, acting chair of the SEC, says: 鈥淭he EC鈥檚 decision is an important first step on the road to providing greater regulatory certainty for CCPs and their members on both sides of the Atlantic"

LIBOR transition: 85% of uncleared UK derivatives market ready

27 January 2021 UK
Reporter: Becky Bellamy

The FCA鈥檚 Edwin Schooling Latter says the success of this protocol means 鈥渁 major reduction in risk faced by the 12,000 plus firms who have already signed, and for the system as a whole鈥�

BCBS proposes changes to SFT haircuts

27 January 2021 Switzerland
Reporter: Natalie Turner

The Basel committee has proposed technical amendments to the calculation of minimum haircut floors for securities financing transactions to avoid common misunderstandings

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