European Parliament rejects Swinburne’s forex exemption
The European Parliament has voted to ditch a crucial amendment to the European Markets Infrastructure Regulation (Emir) proposed by British MEP Kay Swinburne that would explicitly recognise settlement risk as the predominant risk in the foreign exchange market.
The deleted amendment was adopted by the Parliament's economic and monetary affairs committee (Econ) on May 24 and welcomed by industry officials at the time. "For certain classes of derivatives, involving exchange of principal, such as
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