Asia’s bid for London’s derivatives crown is picking up pace as the UK’s attractiveness comes into question due to tough EU regulation and the country’s departure from the Union. 

Firms struggling to implement MiFID II in time for it going live on January 2018 will also have to worry about the EU’s strict new data privacy laws that come into force five months later with the potential to create conflicts

The results of the German election have thrown a spanner in the works for European reform and integration. But an understanding of what often drives European integration points to a potentially different outcome. Justin Pugsley reports.

The EU is making progress with its much-anticipated simple transparent and standardised securitisations framework, but industry sources fear that there is still too much vagueness and uncertainty for it to work effectively. By Justin Pugsley.

More countries are adopting dedicated and comprehensive conduct regimes, suggesting that more bankers could go to jail in the future for wrongdoing. Justin Pugsley reports.

Algorithms are rapidly transforming financial services and, as a consequence, will change the oversight of firms, how they comply with rules and the way regulators interact with the industry. By professor Philip Treleaven, director of the UK Financial Computing Centre at UCL, and Jagdev Kenth, director of risk & regulatory strategy at Willis Towers Watson. 

A hearing in the UK’s House of Lords aired several obstacles – some technical – to the UK preserving a regulatory regime that is sufficiently similar to the EU’s for it to maintain maximum access to its financial markets. By Justin Pugsley.