What does EMIR mean?

In February, the European Parliament published the technical standards for the European Markets Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR).  The standards were published in the Official Journal of the European Union on 23 February 2013 and will enter into force on 15 March 2013.

To find out what this means, why not join us on Wednesday 14th March when we have our fifth plenary meeting of the Clearing & Settlement Working Group (CAS-WG) at the BT Auditorium, 81 Newgate Street, LONDON, EC1A 7AJ.

If you would like to attend, please register.

The agenda is:

2:00 Introductions

2:15 Updates from Regulations Subject Groups from Chair Greg Caldwell

2:45 An Overview of T2S progress and general review of clearing in Europe from Ben
Parker, EMEA Securities Clearing and Settlement, Securities, UBS Group
Operations

3:30 Break

4:00 Updates from Infrastructures and Technologies Subject Groups from Chairs
Kathleen Tyson-Quah and Virginie O'Shea

4:30 Discussion of the Europe going forward in light of recent
announcements regarding the Banking Union and EMIR with

• Laurens Vis, MD KAS BANK UK;
• Andrew Simpson,
  Market Structure Consultant; and
• Bob Fuller,
  Director, Fixnetix

5:15 Call to action

5:30 Close

If
you would like to attend, please register.

By way of background, we have three Subject Groups:

• The Market Infrastructures
  Subject Group
• The Regulation
  Subject Group
• The Standards
  Subject Group

Each Subject Group has developed specific frameworks to model the implications
of change from the European Market Infrastructures Regulation (EMIR), along
with other changes introduced by the FSA, European Commission, the Bank of
International Settlements (BIS) Basel Committee and more.

Our plenary meetings are open for anyone to attend at no charge. Following
these meetings, further subject group meetings will take place in April, with
the next planned plenary session to take place in June 2013.