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CASLA: Geopolitics presents heavy impact on financial legislation

03 June 2025 Canada
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Market participants at this year’s CASLA conference discuss the regulatory regimes impacting the securities lending market, and the role geopolitics plays in legislation

ECMS gets the green light for go-live

19 May 2025 Europe
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

After migration is completed over the weekend, ECMS operations are expected to start on 16 June at 07:00 CET

ASIC sues Macquarie Securities for systemic misleading conduct

14 May 2025 Australia
Reporter: Daniel Tison

In its first short sale reporting case, ASIC alleges the misleading conduct was due to multiple systems-related issues, many of which remained undetected for over a decade

Hazeltree partners with Reg-X

14 May 2025 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The collaboration aims to bring fully-automated, transparent regulatory reporting to Hazeltree’s global network of clients

ISDA extends DRR to support revised Canadian reporting rules

13 May 2025 Netherlands
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The revisions are being implemented by the Canadian Securities Administrators and are scheduled for implementation on 25 July 2025

ISDA to extend DRR to cover MiFID and MiFIR

07 May 2025 Europe
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The association is also working with the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation to integrate the ISDA DRR into DTCC’s Global Trade Repository MiFID/MiFIR ARM

European Council to exempt SFTs from T+1

07 May 2025 Europe
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

SFTs are financial transactions that allow investors and firms to use assets such as the shares or bonds they own, to secure funding for their activities

ECB introduces changes to credit facility for euro-area CCPs

01 May 2025 EU
Reporter: Daniel Tison

Activation of the dedicated Eurosystem overnight credit facility will no longer require a decision by the Governing Council to ensure prompt operationalisation

FINRA request 10c-1a compliance dates extension

30 Apri 2025 US
Reporter: Daniel Tison

As part of the proposal, covered parties must begin reporting to a registered national securities association on 28 September 2026

ISLA publishes 2025 netting opinions for GMSLA

14 April 2025 UK
Reporter: Daniel Tison

The document includes additions for Andorra and Northern Ireland, increasing ISLA’s netting coverage to 67 jurisdictions

FSC to extend short selling measures for Taiwan

14 April 2025 Taiwan
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The stock market stabilisation measures have, according to the FSC, achieved the expected effect and curbed speculative selling

ESMA finalises rules on order execution policies under MiFID II

10 April 2025 EU
Reporter: Daniel Tison

The EU’s financial markets regulator and supervisor specifies the rules in the latest draft regulatory technical standards, with the objective to enhance investment firms’ order execution and foster investor protection