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ESMA grants DTCC Data Repository Ireland TR status under EMIR and SFTR

21 December 2020 UK
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

This registration is part of the DTCC Group strategy to ensure it continues to offer services to EU clients after the end of the Brexit transition period on 31 December 2020

EU’s lowered short selling reporting threshold renewed again

18 December 2020 France
Reporter: Drew Nicol

ESMA is maintaining the 0.1 percent net short position reporting threshold until March 2021, marking the second extension

BoE to decide if interest rates should go negative

17 December 2020 UK
Reporter: Natalie Turner

The Bank of England’s monetary policy committee is meeting today to determine whether negative interest rates should be introduced, while securities lending participants express concerns about the possibility of negative yields on cash collateral rei

South Korea to tighten penalties for illegal short selling

11 December 2020 South Korea
Reporter: Natalie Turner

Traders risk a year in prison and a $460,000 fine for naked short selling in South Korea, and must retain a five-year paper trail of borrowed securities under proposed amendments to capital market regulations

BoE grants CSDR licence to Euroclear UK & Ireland

08 December 2020 UK
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

This makes EUI the seventh and final CSD entity in the Euroclear Group to receive its licence

The final chance to fix CSDR’s settlement discipline regime is here

08 December 2020 Belgium
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Industry stakeholders have until 2 February 2021 to submit responses to the EC’s CSDR consultation, and face a tight timetable to make the changes in Q4 2021 before the settlement discipline regime’s February 2022 go-live date