The REGIS-TR RoundUp

In this show we take a break from EMIR Refit and look at the next major piece of 2024 regulation - DORA the Digital Operations and Resilience Act. This will be a potentially disruptive and complex new set of regulations for EU financial entities, and requires a mix of compliance, legal and technical expertise to ensure your organisation complies. Fortunately, we have our own team from SIX and BME Legal, the Regis-TR chief Informati...

In this special feature-length show, we celebrate International Women's Day and Regis-TR's industry-leading roster of women in senior leadership roles with co-hosts Bárbara Ruiz Alonso (Head of Client Services) and Laura Rodriguez (Head of Institutional Relations), plus very special guests Maria Teresa Santos, Berta Ares (Head Program & Innovation Office, Financial Information, SIX), and our new Chief Compliance Offic...

Join the Regis-TR team for this first show of 2024: Laura Rodrigquez (Head of Institutional Relations) breaks down the ESMA 2024 work plan and what it means for market participants and TRs. Also UK CEO John  Kernan, Head of Business Development Nicholas Bruce and Head of Client Services Barbara Ruiz Alonso give expert insights into what market participants need to do now to prepare for 2024. With EMIR Refit on the horizon, followed...

As the curtain falls on 2023, we're thrilled to bring back Head of Client Services and regular co-host for seasons 1-6, Barbara Ruiz Alonso. She's joined by regular host Andrew Keith Walker, Laura Rodriguez, Nicholas Bruce, and John Kernan for the final show of 2023 and the first of our new, 10th Season.

In the new show format, we go in-depth with EMIR Refit's toughest challenges, look at the growing diversi...

Join us for part 2 of our special event show with live interviews from the Annual Client Conference held in London on October 26th. With news, insights and opinions from Mari-Carmen Mochón (CCO, Regis-TR SA), Tim Hartley (Kaizen), John Graham (FIA), David Famery (Broadridge). Colin Birchall (Point 9), Kevin Demeyer (Deloitte Luxembourg), Max Makhoul (Quorsus/Capgemeni) and David Retana (MD, Regis-TR UK). Join these very special gue...

This show was recorded live from London, featuring the opinions and insights of a wide range of industry experts from the world of RegTech, including Thomas Steimann (CEO, Regis-Tr SA), Irene Mermigidis (MD, Regis-TR SA), Andrew Pinnington-Mannan (Capgemini),  Danny Corrigan (London Reporting House), Emma Kalliomaki (MD, Anna DSB), Sabine Offerman (KFW Bankinggruppe), Carolyn Kostelny (Leargas Consulting) and John Kernan (CEO, Regi...

In this show, we catch up with one of our first guests - Danny Corrigan, CEO of the London Reporting House - to discuss the role of data analysis, Regtech and Fintech in the world of repo.  With repo volumes growing quickly and now over three times their volume in 2022, Danny - formerly CEO of CME Nex Abide (trade repository) is joined by John Kernan, CEO of Regis-TR UK to discuss the current 'Repo Renaissance'. With over...

In this special extended edition of the RoundUp, we go in-depth on Futures and ETFs, asking the FIA Director of Regulation John Graham to take us through the unique challenges for improving data quality and meeting the new Refit data requirements for the futures industry. We also examine the potential unknowns of reconciling trade position data where previously this has proven extremely complex when it comes to ETFs. We also look a...

In this special feature-length show we go in-depth with Urs Reich (Head of Public Affairs & Markets, SIX) and Laura Rodriguez (Head of Institutional Relations, Regis-TR) to discuss the challenges of managing relationships with government, market authorities, trade organisations and the many stakeholders that affect public affairs and markets at SIX.  We also discuss the big challenges facing market participants in 2024, and ask...

In this show, we answer the most frequently asked questions that market participants need to know about EMIR Refit, our reporting dashboard and UAT testing environment  - plua the changes they'll need to make to their own data capture and workflow to meet their new reporting obligations.

Join co-hosts Andrew Keith Walker and Nick Bruce, with special guests Alvaro Gascon and Victor Rodriguez Garcia from our product man...

This week we meet Massimo Salerno, Director of Treasury, Risk and Regulatory Services at Cecabank, and discuss their unique position within the Iberian region as both a market participant and a service provider to over 40 regulated financial entities. As a partner of Regis-TR and the Six Group, we also discuss the synergies and opportunities our partnership has provided with co-host Nick Bruce and regular guest Chris Mason.  We als...

In this show we go in-depth with EMIR expert - and old friend of the show - Tim Hartley, to talk about market readiness for EMIR's April 2024 go-live, the need for accurate high quality data reporting and discuss the complexities of the post-Brexit landscape. We're talking about dual reporting obligations, UPIs and some of the more complex areas like the status of UK AIFs under UK EMIR, and the new parties in-scope of the...

In this week's show we catch-up with Fabian Klar and Fraser Reid from Regnology to discuss their view on building solutions for EMIR Refit - and preparing market participants for ESMA's new data quality requirements in the 2022 DQR. With regular hosts Nick Bruce and Andrew Keith Walker we discuss the ever closer alignment needed on UPIs, EU and UK EMIR, and common data elements shared between MIFIR and SFTR... plus how to...

In this feature length episode we go in depth on the topic of CSDR, where it connects with EMIR Refit, and the implications for CSDs and ICSDs with Jesús Benito. Jesús is Head Domestic Custody & TR operations, SIX. In this show Jesús explains the complexities, challenge and opportunities for the CSD business from the unique perspective of someone working across an EU CSD and a third country ICSD and CSD in Switzerland, plus of ...

This week we get an exclusive preview of the new 2023 EMIR Refit Readiness report from Novatus Advisory. Francis Stroudley, Director and Transaction Reporting Lead, Nick Bruce (Head of Business Development, Regis-TR) and house Andrew Keith Walker unpack some of the headline stats that have emerged from the Novatus industry study - with some surprising results about the general readiness of market participants to hit the April 2024 ...

Our 2023 shows kick off with a detailed discussion of the newly published EMIR Refit guidelines, discussing the practical implementation of the EMIR Refit guidelines, transitional period, data quality standards and reporting obligations. We're joined by Silvia Morales (Head of Product Management, Regis-TR) and the rest of the virtual studio crew to go in-depth with the new documentation and consider what this means for market ...

In this special show, we look back at the major events of 2022 for Regis-TR and the SIX Group, as well as the great  events we attended from SIBOS to our own Post-Trade Summit. We also look at how the working life of a TR has changed coming out of Lockdown and getting back to new ways of working and travelling to connect with clients, plus the usual catch-up with our virtual studio crew and a especial message from our former produc...

In this week's special show we go in-depth with legal expert Andrea Ostini Della Vedova -   Head of Data Protection and Data Protection Officer for the SIX Group. In this chat with regular host Andrew Keith Walker, they explore different global approaches to AI regulation, the different levels of risk associated with AI tech, the likely impact on the Regtech and TR business and - of course - offer market participants advice on...