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       Posted on February 22nd, 2012

Chinese Investment in Latin American Resources: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

China’s need for vast amounts of minerals to sustain its high economic growth rate has led Chinese investors to acquire stakes in natural resource companies, extend loans to mining and petroleum investors, and write long-term procurement contracts for oil and minerals in Africa, Latin America, Australia, Canada, and other resource-rich regions. These efforts [...]


       Posted on February 22nd, 2012

The SEPA Regulation: The Clock is Ticking

The SEPA Regulation will be the fourth major regulatory intervention within a decade designed to achieve a harmonised euro payments market and will apply to most credit transfer and direct debit transactions denominated in euros within the EU, setting 1 February 2014 as the migration deadline for credit transfers and for most direct [...]


       Posted on February 22nd, 2012

Strategic Review of Innovation in the Payments System: Summary of Consultation

The Reserve Bank began formal consultation for the Strategic Review of Innovation in late June 2011 with the publication of two documents – Strategic Review of Innovation in the Payments System: Issues for Consultation (the consultation paper) and Strategic Review of Innovation in the Payments System: Results of the Reserve Bank of Australia’s [...]


       Posted on February 21st, 2012

AFME, ICMA, ISLA and ISDA joint input for ESMA Consultation Paper on draft technical standards on the Regulation on short selling and certain aspects of credit default swaps

Main feedback:

The use of the Mifid liquid shares definition in Article 6 is inappropriate and would cause significant costs to the market place and ultimately to long term investors who lend securities. It would also materially worsen liquidity in shares that are less liquid.
The joint associations do not believe it is appropriate or necessary for [...]


       Posted on February 21st, 2012

Publication of the responses received by ESMA to the consultation on short selling and CDS

In November 2011 the Council and the Parliament voted on a Regulation on short selling and certain aspects of credit default swaps. This is about to be published and should be applicable from 1 November 2012. According to the Regulation ESMA has to submit its technical standards to the Commission by 31 March [...]


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