An SEC Commissioner calls for a study into the practices of large for profit stock exchanges in the US as he criticises their uncompetitive practices

Trade bodies propose safe harbour mechanism to help firms comply more efficiently with similar SEC and CFTC rules around instruments such as swaps

More rules and laws may not be the best response to stamping out misconduct within Australian banks, but instead a simplification and better regulatory oversight might be more effective, says royal commissioner

ESMA is consulting on a set of guidelines for the internal stress testing of money market funds covering areas such as liquidity and credit risk

In a speech in Singapore, CFTC chairman J. Christopher Giancarlo stressed the importance of regulators showing deference towards each others' regulatory regimes for the smooth functioning of swaps markets

US legal case reinforces CFTC’s oversight of cyber-currencies as it finds them to be commodities

At its meeting on Sept 19-20, the Basel Committee discussed bank window dressing of the leverage ratio, market risk frameworks and agreed to do a consultation on the leverage ratio’s impact on derivatives clearing

The EU and Switzerland are still struggling to agree a new treaty to tidy up 120 sectoral agreements potentially threatening the Swiss stock exchange’s unfettered access to EU-based clients

The change in approach taken by the FCA has seen its caseload rise to record levels while at the same time it is dropping a record number of investigations

MiFID II will need a full review once the UK has left the EU with a senior French regulator envisaging tougher equivalence rules for third countries and foreign firms handing over more data