The REGIS-TR RoundUp

In a very special in-depth episode, Viola Lutz, Head of Climate Solutions at ISS ESG and one of Forbes 30 under 30 financial influencers talks about the current state of ESG within the markets and the reporting implications. Viola has overseen the screening of over $3.3tril of ESG assets for institutional investors, and is a recognised expert on ESG and its impact on securities lending, green collateral, data quality and the way different reporting regimes and jurisdictions are influencing the development of ESG within MiFID2, UCITS, AIFMD and SFTD within the EU and beyond. 

This week Laura Rodriguez (Head of Institutional Relations) gives us a summary of the new ESMA Risk Dashboard, and Sustainable Performance Coach Catherine Henrotte  gives practical advice and life-hacks for attaining better work-life integration as we transition back into office and hybrid home working routines. 

Plus Laura Gibson (Brexit Reporter & Producer) gives us a Brexit update, we meet two Regis-TR interns talking about their experiences with the company in Luxembourg, and John Kernan (Regis-TR UK CEO) gives us an update on his first trip back to the UK since 2019 and the forthcoming Regis-TR client conference. 

We're back for Season 5 of the RoundUp with a new Virtual Studio Crew and more senior guests from the world of fintech, regtech and reporting. 

This week Carolyn Van Den Daelen - Managing Partner at Quorsus - takes us on a tour of all the major issues that market participants will face as they prepare for EMIR REFIT, from data harmonisation & ISO 20022 variations between NCAs, to reporting differences between ETD & OTC derivatives, and improving data quality and preparing for NFC reporting obligations. 

This week we're proud to end season 4 with the first ever inter-TR podcast event with Paul Sedgwick (Executive Director & General Manager of DDRL at DTCC) and the Regis-TR team discussing the big issues facing trade repositories in 2021-22. We go in-depth on EMIR Refit, data harmonisation, ISO 20022 and the challenges of maintaining a profitable TR industry and meeting the needs of market participants in the face of ever increasing data hunger, new regulations, new technologies and changing economic conditions. Don't miss this very special 50th episode of the Round-Up - it's like a conference panel event with added banter.

In this week's feature length episode our two CEOs - Thomas Steimann from Regis-TR SA and John Kernan from Regis-TR UK discuss the outlook for trade repositories, and examine the short-term and long-term challenges of Brexit, EMIR Refit, data quality and increasing costs for smaller market participants.

In part 2 of our discussion with Chris Hollifield (Head of Business Development at Luxembourg for Finance) we discuss the role of blockchain and tokenisation in the future of green investment, plus we discuss his role in creating the Podcast over a curry in London's famous Brick Lane. Plus we go in-depth on Brexit News and the new regulations for reporting under EMIR once LIBOR is discontinued.

In this episode Chris Hollifield - Head of Business Development for Luxembourg for Finance  -discusses what makes Luxembourg a global leader for regulations, ESG, fund servicing and a growing Fintech community. We also have our latest Brexit news, and updates from Head of Client Services Barbera Ruiz Alonso and CEO of Regis-TR UK, John Kernan. Next week in part 2 we get into the future for tokenisation, DLT, blockchain and more... 

This week we have a feature length episode where we look back over the history of ISO 20022 with one of the people who has helped to make it such a huge success over the last 15-years, Paul Janssens the Programme Director at SWIFT. Paul is joined by REGIS-TR S.A. MD Irene Mermigidis, John Kernan (CEO of REGIS-TR UK) and Thomas Bremen (VP REGIS-TR) who is working with Paul on the SEG Group currently collaborating with ESMA on the first maintenance release of ISO 20022 for SFTR. Plus we have a laugh about Y2K... remember that? Laura doesn't.

Que Phuong  Dufournet-Tran, Director of Trading Services & Analytics Regulatory Affairs at IHS Markit and Laura Rodriguez from our Institutional Relations team discuss the challenges for regulators and market participants when trying to harmonise trade reporting data across jurisdictions. Plus we have a new Brexit news section, and more insights from the TR team on the news and events shaping the Regtech space.

In our second special edition with BearingPoint's ABACUS product manager Alexander Becht, we explore deeper into the future of regtech and discuss the idea of RegOps (regulatory operations) in the cloud, plus data lakes, regulator designed market infrastructure and more. Plus the usual insights and water cooler chat from the virtual studio crew...