Financial markets regulation

2021 ◽  
pp. 242-302

Subject Recent developments in EU financial markets regulation. Significance EU authorities have conceded that the January 2017 deadline for implementing the revised Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) must be pushed back, probably for a year. The postponement underlines a gap within the EU between tough rhetoric on financial market reform and the institutional ability to translate it into practice. However, EU regulators have made clear that the MiFID II delay will not spill over to slow other reforms -- for example, by moving to resolve a long-running dispute with the United States over derivatives clearing. Impacts Firms' compliance challenges will be formidable and are as yet undefined. The scope of these challenges will depend on formal adoption of the final texts of pending technical standards. The MiFID II delay vindicates concerns expressed by ESMA, and will buttress its authority.


2020 ◽  
pp. 14-28

Contemporary Aspects of Financial Markets Regulation The article reflects the work and results under a university scientific project (UNWE, 2017- 2019) bearing the same title. The choice of the specific aspects to be explored is based on the market developments post-2008, when the world was already affected by the Global financial and economic crisis. The banking sector regulation is a subject of the first main part, as the banks were in the epicenter of the financial collapse in 2008 and afterwards, when many weaknesses and gaps in banking regulations became evident. The second main part of the article is about the financial derivatives market – those financial instruments were defined as drivers of the globalization of the crisis. The developments on the financial derivatives market, including its regulation, have a great impact on the global financial system and most notably on its stability. The third main part of the article treats the problems of alternative finance, as a forceful process of circumventing traditional banking is taking place. This is a new field, based on financial innovation, and its regulation is a contemporary matter. The fourth part is about the regulatory reforms of the Bulgarian financial market, given in perspective for a EU member state and respectively the effects for the national economy.


2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-137
Author(s):  
Rustam Kasyanov ◽  
Anzhelika Kriger

The article covers key formats of interstate cooperation in the post-Soviet space. The authors conclude that the Eurasian Economic Union is the major integration project bringing together Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Russia. This research addresses various legal issues related to founding of the EAEU single financial services market with provisions and annexes of the EAEU Treaty studied. The EAEU meets challenges and creates legal and institutional framework for single financial services market within a relatively short timeframe. By 2025 both Supranational Eurasian financial regulator should be established and EAEU legislation on financial services should be harmonized. These tasks require international and national regulation experience. Therefore through the use of comparative analysis some advantages of the European Union law in the field of financial services market regulation are pointed out alongside with particular national legislation aspects of the EAEU member states in the similar or relative fields. Comparative analysis provides for determination of modern approaches to financial services market regulation in the EAEU and its member states, and allows to emphasize advantages and disadvantages of such regulation. Comparative analysis is applied to specifically investigate three subject areas of high relevance for global financial community: institutional forms of trade in financial instruments; organized trade in financial derivatives; organization of algorithmic and high-frequency algorithmic trading. Conclusion drawn is that the EU experience in the matters of financial markets regulation is of particular interest for the EAEU and its member states.


2010 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 257-307 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristie Ford

The recent global financial crisis contains cautionary lessons about the risks associated with principles-based regulation when it is not reinforced by an effective regulatory presence. Our response to the crisis, however, should not be a rush to enact more rules-based regulatory approaches. On the contrary, principles-based securities regulation offers more viable solutions to the challenges that such a crisis presents for contemporary financial markets regulation. The author draws on the lesson of the global financial crisis to identify three critical factors for effective principles-based securities regulation. First, regulators must have the necessary capacity in terms of numbers, access to information, and expertise in order to act as an effective counterweight to industry. Second, regulation needs to grapple with the impact of complexity on financial markets and their regulation. Third, increased diversity among regulators and greater independence from industry are required to avoid conflicts of interest, overreliance on market discipline, and “groupthink”. The paper calls for a continuing commitment to principles-based regulation, accompanied by meaningful enforcement and oversight.


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