This month, we have T+1 expert Jesús Sánchez with the latest updates and advice for market participants to prepare for the January 2027 testing deadline. Jesús is Iberclear's Head of Domestic Settlement, a member and chair of various ECSDA committees and CSD industry working groups focused on settlement discipline and T+1. Along with regular hosts Laura Rodríguez and Andrew Keith Walker, this episode is a masterclass on getting ready for T+1. It's possibly an even bigger challenge than EMIR Refit... are you ready?

We're back for an exciting new season - going in-depth, under the hood and behind the scenes of regulatory reporting and markets in the EU, UK and beyond. In this show - recorded live at our client breakfast event at SIX's UK HQ in the City of London - we chat with S&P Global, The London Reporting House, SIX and Regis-TR about the reporting changes, challenges and opportunities on the horizon for 2025-2026. If you work in derivatives, futures, securities lending or collateral management, don't miss this lively chat about upcoming changes to MiFIR, and reporting changes in the US, Canada and Hong Kong, plus all the usual chat with our virtual studio crew. 

In our feature-length season finale, Matthew Vincent (Dir. MIFIR Reporting, Kaizen) and José Manuel Santamaría, (Head Regulatory Services, BME, SIX)  join our regular virtual studio crew to talk about the next huge wave of regulatory change - MIFIR 2024. With far-reaching implications for market participants in non-equity instruments and equities, could 2025 signal even more disruption than EMIR Refit last year? Join Andrew Keith Walker, Nick Bruce and John Kernan for another lively show going in-depth and under the hood of the latest Regtech news. 

In this special show recorded live in Madrid, our regular guest Aušrinė Juškevičiūtė, Institutional Relations Management, REGIS-TR, SIX, interviews  Pilar Martínez, Head Public Affairs EU & Latin America, BME, SIX. They discuss the new EU capital markets plan, the Draghi report, DORA and more regulatory and legal harmonisation facing market participants and trade repositories in 2025.

In this special live recording, hosted by John Kernan, Head, REGIS-TR UK, SIX, John interviews our special guests about the impact of EMIR Refit and the the rollout, delivery and data quality improvements from a market participant perspective. With hands-on expert insights from Felicity Howley (Product Owner Regulatory Reporting, ABN AMRO CLEARING), Roberto Bermejo (Secondary Markets Department, Deputy Director – Post-trading division, CNMV), Tim Hartley (Director - EMIR Reporting, Kaizen) and Paula López (Head Client Services, REGIS-TR, SIX)

Happy New Year! In our first show of 2025, we have Maria Santos (MD, Regis-TR SA), John Kernan (CEO Regis-TR UK) and Laura Rodriguez (Head of Institutional Relations) setting the big Q1 goals for the TR & market participants. Plus, we look at DORA, upcoming milestones in the regulation space, events and some predictions for 2025. 

In this special episode, recorded live at the 2024 client event in Madrid, we hear predictions and analysis of what 2025 will bring for the regulatory reporting industry and markets - from Thomas Steiman (CEO, Regis-TR SA) Mari Carmen Mochón (CCO), Sara Gil (Client Services), Aušrinė Juškevičiūtė (Institutional Relations), Pilar Martinez (Public Affairs), Marianna Longobardo (Markets Research), Shi Thiele (Eurex Clearing) Aladin Bennouna (Quintet Private Bank), Kevin Demeyer (Deloitte’s), Grant Haley, Micheal MacAlinden & Amanda Macallister (1st Derivative). Plus festive holiday messages from Paula López Ortega (Head of Client Services), John Kernan (CEO, Regis-TR UK) and Nicholas Bruce (Head of Business Development, Regis-TR). 

In this special, recorded live at our #REGISTR Annual Client Event at the Madrid Stock Exchange, we interview senior industry leaders about the successes and challenges of 2024, one of the hardest for the derivatives industry as they implemented the far-reaching changes of EMIR Refit, and faced a tsunami of global rewrites. Featuring insights and analysis from:

👤María Santos, Managing Director, REGIS-TR, SIX

👤Alfonso Alcalá, Chief Operating Officer, REGIS-TR, SIX

👤Silvia Morales, Head Product Management, REGIS-TR, SIX

👤Tim Hartley, Director - EMIR Reporting, Kaizen

👤Felicity Howley, Product Owner Regulatory Reporting, ABN AMRO CLEARING

👤John Kernan, Head, REGIS-TR UK, SIX

👤David Retana, Managing Director, REGIS-TR UK, SIX 

Plus, lots of conference banter, behind-the-scenes chat and general buzz from a hugely successful event at the magnificent Palacio de la Bolsa in Madrid. We also hope to close the debate on the famous "Spanish chorizo"... is it a sausage? Bets are open!

We're back from our summer break with a new team - introducing Paula López Ortega our new head of client services, and a chance to catch up with our MD Maria Santos - together with regular co-hosts Laura Rodriguez and Nicholas Bruce, we're looking at the success of UK EMIR Refit earlier this month, plus reviewing the main friction points market participants have reported as they adapt to the new EU EU EMIR framework. We'll look at the regulatory horizon with SFTR and FinFrag consultations, look forward to our big Madrid client event on November 26th, and hit our new guests with a surprise quiz... don't miss it!

In this show, we go in-depth on ISDA's Digital Regulatory  Reporting (DRR) - a repository of open source,  machine-executable code that will enable market participants to report faster and with higher data quality in multiple global jurisdictions and across different reporting regimes. Join our special guests Tara Kruse (Global Head of Derivatives  Products & Infrastructure) and Andrew Bayley (Senior Director, DPI Data and Reporting) from ISDA and our virtual studio crew for a fast-paced discussion of the future of derivatives reporting.

In this special feature-length show, EMIR Refit reporting experts Tim Hartley (Dir. EMIR Reporting, Kaizen) and John Graham (Senior Dir. Regulation, FIA) join our Head of Biz Dev. Nick Bruce, Head of Institutional Relations, Laura Rodriguez and Head of Client Services, Barbera Ruiz Alonso to review the go-live of the most significant new regulatory reporting regime of 2024.  After years of preparation, how did market participants react? Did the new UTI system work? Is the data quality there - and are ESMA and NCAs happy with the results? We go in-depth with our expert panel to review the go-live so far and address the issues that remain too early to answer for sure. Plus, we say goodbye to Barbera after 4 years of being a founding member of the team - and give John and Tim a surprise quiz to keep them on their toes. Don't miss it!

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 Information Security Officer, and our Institutional relations team to explain the timelines, contractual changes, supplier relationships and technical implementations you need to get through. Don't miss it!

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 Officer Dionne Moody. 

Together, we discuss our different career paths and experiences, offer advice to women beginning their careers in finance, talk about changing culture, and discuss strategies for leading in organisations that were traditionally considered male domains -  or with colleagues who aren't quite sure how to engage with women in senior positions. 

Join us for an uplifting hour of positivity, constructive advice and a celebration of the work culture at Regis-TR and SIX.

In this month's show we discuss the new Regis-TR  MED onboarding platform, discuss the state of the market in preparation for the EMIR Refit deadline on April 29th, and go in-depth on financial information services, risk weightings and data management for today's complex B2B financial instruments with Darren Marsh,  Senior Product Manager for Risk and Regulatory reporting at SIX Financial Information. 

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 by DORA and MICA developments, plus technical standards, peer reviews and data quality reports, it's going to be a busy year - don't miss our expert insights into what lies ahead in 2024.

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 diversity and complexity of global derivatives and money markets, and also make time to find out what the team are doing for Christmas - as well as our predictions for 2024 and it's many new reporting challenges for EMIR, DORA, MICA, CFTC and more. Plus Andrew faces the AI challenge - can ChatGPT replace him? Don't miss it!

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 guests live from the venue for some lively chats about 2024 and the outlook for market participants in a post-refit world.  

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, Regis-TR UK). If you couldn't make the live event, be sure to catch this lively chat show from our Annual Client Event, 2023. 

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 1700 market participants actively engaged and more joining as central banks taper QE, join us for a lively chat about the impact of SFTR on repo markets and techniques for using data to enable better trading decisions for market participants.       

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 at the challenges of Brexit and divergence, and there's the usual AI challenge and lively banter about sports, music and life in The City of London.

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 how companies should be preparing for the growth of AI, digital securities and potential disruptions from geopolitical events and climate change.     

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 management team in Madrid, who have compiled the most asked questions from our Regis-TR webinars and client events, with in-depth technical insights into the new features of our reporting system and how to get the most out of it. 

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 also discuss the EMIR Refit readiness of companies faced with capturing new lifecycle event data, and we put Massimo to the test against an AI version and see who has the best advice for market participants.

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 regulation. Plus, we put Tim to the test against an AI version we created using ChatGPT - can the human beat the machine? Tune in to find out...

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 keep in shape and lose the lockdown weight now conference season is upon us.