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Derivatives
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FinTech Law Watch
The White House Working Group on Digital Asset Markets Report: What it Means for the Derivatives Industry
By: Cheryl L. Isaac and Clifford C. Histed The “Strengthening American Leadership in Digital Financial Technology” Report, published in July 2025 by the President’s Working Group on Digital Asset Markets…
Banking, Finance and Securities
FCA Explanatory Statement on the Direction on the DTO
On 17 July 2025, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) released an Explanatory Statement under Article 28a(9) of the UK Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (UK MiFIR) relating to the FCA…
Banking, Finance and Securities
EBA technical advice on a possible Delegated Act on fees for the validation of pro forma models under EMIR
By Simon Lovegrove (UK), Nikolai de Koning
On 30 June 2025, the European Banking Authority (EBA) published a Final Report containing technical advice on a possible Delegated Act on fees for the validation of pro forma models.…
Banking, Finance and Securities
Delegated Regulation supplementing MiFIR as regards OTC derivatives identifying reference data to be used for the purposes of the transparency requirements
On 22 May 2025, there was published in the Official Journal of the EU (OJ) Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2025/1003 of 24 January 2025 supplementing Regulation (EU) No 600/2014 of…
Law Times News
BLG adds capital markets and derivatives lawyer Emily O’Donohue as counsel
She has over 20 years' experience advising asset managers, other institutional investors
Legal Theory Blog
Peihani on Empty Voting and Hidden Ownership in Canadian Corporate Law
Maziar Peihani (University of British Columbia (UBC), Faculty of Law) has posted Empty Voting and Hidden Ownership in Canadian Jurisprudence (Canadian Bar Review (forthcoming in 2025)) on SSRN. Here is…
International Trade Insights
BIS Publishes Process for Requesting Inclusion of Section 232 Derivatives
The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) published an interim final rule effective April 30, 2025 establishing the process for additional products to be added to the list…
Banking, Finance and Securities
ESMA consults on transparency requirements for derivatives under MIFIR Review
By Floortje Nagelkerke (NL), Simon Lovegrove (UK)
On 3 April 2025, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published MiFIR Review Consultation Package 4; On transparency for derivatives, package orders and input/output data for the derivatives consolidated…
Banking, Finance and Securities
HMT response to call for evidence on pension fund clearing exemption
By Simon Lovegrove (UK), Anita Edwards
On 10 January 2025, HM Treasury (HMT) issued its response following its November 2023 call for evidence on the exemption which pension funds currently have from the obligation to clear…
Global Financial Regulatory Blog
On the Margins: CFTC’s Digital Asset Markets Subcommittee Recommends Expanded Use of Non-Cash Collateral Through Blockchain Technology
With appropriate safeguards, distributed ledger technology may expand the use of non-cash assets as derivatives collateral, while mitigating certain market infrastructure inefficiencies. By Yvette D. Valdez, Adam Bruce Fovent, and…