European market structure and regulation: ESMA, the EU institutions, national regulators and European venues.
The draft technical standards cover compression, rebalancing and basis-risk optimisation. They require market-risk neutrality within tolerances set by providers and largely codify current practice.
An MFSA circular says some event contracts are financial instruments and some are not. Operators must assess each contract, and a single platform could fall under several regimes at once.
Electronic, machine-readable allocations and confirmations become mandatory on 7 December. The coordination committee's minutes describe a slipped Swift release, uneven CSD readiness and testing organised locally.
An update to the MiFIR transparency manual collects the tick-size Q&As, adds guidance on manual intervention and corporate actions, and sets out OTC derivatives reference data for the tape.
The Council deal on the Market Integration and Supervision Package came two days after ESMA told national supervisors to hold off on enforcement against unrecognised third-country CSDs after 17 January.
From mid-October, non-US lenders and borrowers can centrally clear loans of Russell 3000 stocks and the top 500 US ETFs, settling at DTC through BNY.
The products, Eurex's first on Asian underlyings, start with ten Nikkei 225 names and trade 21 hours a day. They are aimed at bilateral equity-swap financing in yen and dollars.
The work programme says the EU regulator is moving from preparation to delivery. Consolidated tapes, the 11 October 2027 T+1 date and transaction-reporting reform dominate the markets agenda.
Since 21 September, members can settle equities and euro ETPs from the three markets at Euronext Securities, and issuers can move their issuer CSD there free of charge.
Thirteen banks and four DLT operators have onboarded for launch. Longer hours and more features will be phased in, with full implementation expected by 2028.
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