Jennifer O'Connell

The European Parliament has recently approved the final EMIR texts, known as “EMIR 3.0” that were agreed between the Council of the EU and the European Parliament in February and which introduce changes to the current EMIR framework in the EU. This article highlights the main new requirements of which derivative end-users should be aware so that they can start preparing for these upcoming change to EMIR.

There was a time when we were rightly appalled about the language used about migrants in Brexit Britain. Now it is steadily being normalised here

As part of the European Commission’s strategy for financing the transition to a sustainable economy, the EU has been debating for some time how best to put in place a regulatory regime for EU green bonds. This resulted in the long-awaited publication of the Regulation on EU Green Bonds (the EuGB Regulation) in the Official Journal of the EU on 30 November 2023. It is set to apply from 21 December 2024. This is the first attempt to regulate the green bond market, which so far has operated on the basis of voluntary adoption of voluntary standards such as the ICMA Green Bond Principles and introduces a new gold standard whereby bonds labelled “European green bonds” or “EuGB” will need to comply with the requirements set out in the EuGB Regulation. It is expected that these new disclosure requirements should foster consistency and aid comparison across products in the wider green bond market, thereby preventing greenwashing Attention is now turning to the more detailed level two measures that need to be put in place.

It is worth restating that criticism of the Israeli state is not anti-semitism. But it is also the case that anti-semitism never went away, that it still exists and that it is on the rise again

Don’t we know by now that screens bring out the worst in us?