Just as the EU and US were agreeing their approach to cross-border supervision of swaps trading, the EACT and the U.S. Coalition for Derivatives End-Users jointly wrote to global regulators including Mark Carney (FSB) and Greg Medcraft (IOSCO) arguing the need for global regulation of cross border derivatives to incorporate key principles for the global end user community. We argue that the focus, overwhelmingly on the financial sector, has worked to the detriment of end users.
Corporate treasurers are financial specialists within non-financial companies - but as end-users they are often impacted by EU legislation aimed at the financial sector.
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The latest issue features articles on the European Parliament elections, the trade war between China and the USA, bank account management in transition plus the news that Helmut Schnabel has been re-elected Chair of IGTA.
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The latest issue features articles on cryptocurrencies in the Czech financial market, cybersecurity, impacts of M&A on hedging operations and much more.
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The newsletter features a series of special reports on the EACT Summit 2019.
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KYC has become a serious concern for EACT members over recent years: it is increasingly complex to fulfil all unstructured and nonharmonized requests. In all recent surveys, KYC is listed as a top priority for corporates and its rising costs are a source of frustration.
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