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This week's issue addresses the following topics:
- CFTC Approves Exemption From SEF Registration Requirements for Multilateral Trading Facilities and Organized Trading Facilities Authorized Within the EU
- CFTC Staff Issues Interpretive Guidance Clarifying Commodity Trading Advisor Registration Requirements Resulting from the European Union's MiFID II Research Compensation Provisions for Investment Managers
- CFTC Requests Comment on Proposed Exemptive Order to Permit ICE Clear Credit, ICE Clear US and ICE Clear Europe to Invest Customer Funds in French and German Sovereign Debt
- CFTC Seeks Public Comment on Proposed Amendments to Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. Rules Regarding Direct Funding Participants
- FCA Publishes Issue 55 of Market Watch Newsletter
- FCA Consults on Transitioning Firms and Individuals to SM&CR
- FCA Publishes "Dear CEO" Letter on Payment for Order Flow
- ESMA Provides Update on MiFID II Registers
- European Commission Implementing Decisions Recognizing Certain Third-Country Equities Markets Under MiFID II Published in OJ
- Delegated Regulation Amending MiFID II Definition of Systematic Internalizer Published in OJ
- ESMA Updates Q&A on Benchmark Regulations
- ESMA Publishes New/Updated Q&As on MiFID II, Commodity Derivatives, EMIR and MAR