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  • Four Mifid-focused in-house sources at EU investment banks reveal just how little progress has been made on the legal entity identifier front since Esma granted a six-month reprieve from the rule in late December
  • According to in-house sources at banks, buyside firms and trading venues, best execution reports are both too technical for retail and not granular enough for sophisticated buysiders, rendering them essentially useless for the end investor. They may over time improve accountability, but for now market participants are calling them a dumbed-down version of what many venues already provide
  • The committee has intervened in the early stages of negotiations on the basis that the buyer's close ties with China could damage US national security
  • Speaking to the IIB in DC, Quarles suggested improving the clarity and transparency of the Rule to the benefit of firms and supervisory agencies
  • The regulator has launched a consultation that could result in making compensation for retail investors easier
  • The increase in the regulation of securities and financial markets since 2008 will reach its peak in 2018 (with the revised set of Basel IV regulations arriving only, hopefully, in 2027).
  • Plans for a European banking union have been a long time in the making. Since 2012, the EU has been in conversation with member states to strengthen the bloc against economic shocks. These conversations have intensified over the last few weeks but Germany's acting finance minister Peter Altmaier said that clarifications on risk sharing and reduction need to be made in order to proceed to the next stage.
  • IFLR's fifth annual Merger Control Survey was conducted on a global basis over a two month period. Based on the responses, legal systems in each jurisdiction have been rated on a spectrum that ranges from predictable and light touch regulation to unpredictable or highly intrusive regulation. The ratings do not indicate whether or not a particular approach is justifiable or reasonable.
  • It has been nearly five years since the skin in the game requirement was implemented. Has it made a difference?
  • Steve Mickelsen, General Counsel, 3Degrees Group and Martin Dunn, Senior Counsel, Morrison & Foerster offer their views on this hot topic