UK, Trading Platforms, Derivatives

FAQs - Final Rules for the Revised UK Commodity Derivatives Position Limits Framework

Mayer Brown on 8/4/2025

As of 6 July 2026 (some rules took effect from March 2025), all final rules of the new FCA commodity derivatives position limits framework will come into effect. In addition, responsibility from the regime will transfer from...more

New UK Financial Conduct Authority Direction for the Derivatives Trading Obligation

A&O Shearman on 12/11/2024

The U.K. Financial Conduct Authority has published a new direction for the U.K. derivatives trading obligation, together with an explanatory memorandum. The FCA's existing direction modifying the U.K. DTO using its Temporary...more

Financial Regulatory Observer – June 2019: No-deal Brexit: Challenges for trading venues and their participants

White & Case LLP on 7/1/2019

There is no silver bullet for maintaining cross-border trading if the UK leaves the EU without a deal. The date of Brexit has been delayed until (at least) October 31, 2019, but there is little sign that financial...more

Italy Temporary Permissions Regime (TPR) for hard Brexit

Hogan Lovells on 3/21/2019

Following the Ministry of Economy and Finance press release of 24 January 2019, last night the Italian Government approved the law decree aimed at ensuring financial stability and market integrity in the event of hard Brexit...more

Corporate & Financial Weekly Digest, Featuring Topics on Broker/Dealer and UK/EU Developments

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP on 4/16/2018

BROKER-DEALER - Nasdaq Has Proposed a New Rule Change To Modify Its System of Volume-Based Credits - The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC (Nasdaq) has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission a proposed rule change to...more

Your Daily Dose of Financial News

Robins Kaplan LLP on 2/6/2017

RBS has agreed to pay $85 million to the CFTC to resolve allegations that its traders “manipulated the ISDAfix benchmark rate over a period of five years to benefit the bank’s derivatives positions”....more