OANDA, New York based forex trading serving provider recently revealed in an announcement that it has made a new addition to its APAC region senior level leadership team. As per statement released by the firm…
ESMA splits the EU commodity position report before…
From September 3, 2026, European Union trading venues switch to a rebuilt weekly commodity derivatives position report — two files instead of one, spot emission allowances removed, energy positions expressed in megawatt hours — while…
Australia’s swap rule discloses the client at 5%,…
From December 4, 2026, an investor holding a cash-settled swap over an ASX-listed company must file a public substantial holding notice once the position reaches 5% of a class, while the bank that wrote and…
UK’s critical third parties regime cannot fine AWS…
HM Treasury designated Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft and Oracle as Critical Third Parties on July 8, 2026, and the Bank of England, the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)…
CFTC moves to end the SEF order-book rule…
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has proposed to delete the requirement that every swap execution facility (SEF) operate an order book for swaps outside the trade execution requirement, ending a 13-year piece of Dodd-Frank…
FCA finds three quarters of UK retail share…
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published its own evidence that at least three quarters of UK retail share trades are executed at prices that do not comply with the tick size regime already binding…
FIX Trading Community flags tokenisation data gaps to…
The FIX Trading Community has told the Financial Conduct Authority and the Bank of England that the binding constraint on tokenisation is neither the technology nor the rulebook, but the absence of common data standards…
Regulation Crypto Assets caps token raises and preempts…
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has published the text of Regulation Crypto Assets — Release Nos. 33-11434; 34-106150, File No. S7-2026-27 — a 402-page proposing release that would exempt token offerings of up to…
Why CP26/23 splits UK CFD books into UK…
The live United Kingdom rule change for retail leveraged trading is not a leverage consultation. It is CP26/23, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) proposal published on June 29, 2026 that would limit the Consumer Duty…