EU racing to comply with active account rules

Industry wants simpler route to exemptions ahead of ‘challenging’ deadline for new clearing regime

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The schedule for complying with the European Union’s new regime governing the location of derivatives clearing poses challenges for the industry and regulators alike. The rules require eligible EU firms to maintain an operational active account for derivatives clearing onshore, from June 24 this year.

“People are still very much in the design phase of what they want to do,” said Gaspard Bonin, deputy global head of derivatives clearing and execution at BNP Paribas. “There is not one single

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