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O’Melveny & Myers partner Stevan Bunnell has joined Facebook’s cryptocurrency project Libra as chief legal officer, while the European Securities and Markets Authority has nominated members for the central counterparties supervision committee formed under last year’s EMIR revision.

04 September 2020

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has confirmed that aspects of the upcoming securitisation regulation will come online later this month, shortly after the EU delayed the entry into force of the Central Securities Depositories Regulation (CSDR) settlement discipline regime.

04 September 2020

US derivatives regulator the Commodity Futures Trading Commission has issued a trio of no-action letters ahead of next year’s Libor transition, in an attempt to encourage derivatives traders to amend their contracts, as the industry-led task force guiding the transition issued new recommended contractual language.

02 September 2020

US authorities have slapped Canada’s Scotiabank with harsh penalties in a market manipulation case, in part because of its failure to reveal the full extent of wrongdoing when voluntarily disclosing the matter.

02 September 2020

US banking regulators have finalised a measure allowing banks to make higher capital distributions under stressed financial conditions, over the objections of the minority members of the Federal Reserve and FDIC boards.

28 August 2020

The UK’s Prudential Regulation Authority will terminate a counter-cyclical emergency capital requirements policy adopted at the outset of the pandemic, while issuing new guidance on the treatment of deferrals under the IFRS 9 accounting standard.

28 August 2020

Latvia’s banking regulator has announced new anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing guidance, after fining local outfit Signet Bank €906,000 for AML failings.

26 August 2020

Australia’s securities regulator has issued guidelines to assist with its new “enhanced” regulatory sandbox, which is set to come online next week.

26 August 2020

Artificial intelligence and machine learning have rapidly grown in importance during the covid-19 pandemic, say speakers at a recent Bank of England webinar – but a report issued the same day by a group of Hong Kong regulators said new types of risk arising from the use of the technologies may require new types of macroprudential regulation.

24 August 2020

Financial institutions and industry groups have told the Financial Stability Board they need more detailed guidance on resolution for central counterparties (CCPs), warning that a lack of specific guidance could lead to “significant differences in CCP resolution regimes across jurisdictions”.

24 August 2020