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In a judgment that will be of interest to exchanges and those who trade on them, the English High Court dismissed judicial review proceedings brought against the London Metal Exchange (LME) and LME Cl...
Author(s): Emma Probyn, James Smethurst, Harry White
On 31 October 2023, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) issued Market Watch 75, in which it raised concerns over possible abuses of the market sounding process. The FCA’s concerns relate to cases of...
Author(s): Tom Godwin, Richard Ho, Tricia Moffat, Christopher Bernard
It has been a while since the CESR guidelines on “Understanding the definition of advice under MiFID” were published. To be precise, 13 years have passed since CESR, ESMA’s predecessor, clarified and ...
Author(s): Marius Raetz, Alicia Hildner
In the heated discussion around the ban on payment for order flow, the proposal on the Retail Investment Package (the Proposal), adopted on 24 May 2023, seems to have somewhat fallen between the crack...
Author(s): Marius Raetz, Falko Glasow, Alicia Hildner, Alexander Glos
Wholesale Markets Review: an enhanced, tailor-made regime for UK markets
Memorandum of understanding on financial services: A stepping stone to ensuring equivalence?
A framework for synthetic STS securitisation - A snapshot of recent developments
The SFC narrows the proposed scope of the OTC derivatives licensing regime
Structured finance and COVID-19: Issues you should consider
Regulatory supervisory outlook 2020
The New EU Securitisation Regulation
MiFID 2 - impact on corporates and other entities who use financial markets