If the UK leaves the EU without a formal withdrawal agreement, it would create negative pressures on its lenders, but given they have strong capital and liquidity they are expected to remain resilient, said Moody’s Investor Services.

While Bloomberg Trade Repository Ltd (UK) has had its registration withdrawn, DTCC Data Repository (Ireland) PLC has been registered as an EU trade repository, said the European Securities and Markets Authority (Esma) in two separate statements.

Depositors at branches of UK credit institutions in the EU should continue to benefit from deposit guarantee schemes (DGSs) in the event of a hard Brexit, the European Banking Authority (EBA) said in an opinion.

Three asset management firms in the US are pushing the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to allow them to implement the EU’s markets in financial instruments directive (MiFID) II in the US over the handling of investment research.

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (Finra) has been chosen by US stock exchange operators as the plan processor for the consolidated audit trail (CAT), a giant database allowing regulators to detect suspicious market activity.

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) wrote a letter on March 5 to authorised institutions (AIs) urging them to prepare for alternative reference rates to replace the Hong Kong interbank offered rate (Hibor).

The EU authorities have given providers of critical benchmarks another two years until December 31, 2021 to comply with the benchmarks regulation (BMR).

The University of New South Wales Business School has been asked by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) to find out how Australian fund managers might be affected by the EU’s Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II).

US regulatory agencies have extended the comment period on the standardised approach for calculating the exposure amount of derivative contracts (SA-CCR) and on proposed changes to company-run stress testing requirements.

The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) would like to rival tech giants Google and Facebook in the arena of sophisticated data analysis.