Following the global financial crisis, increased regulation is shaping financial, energy and commodity market infrastructure. Market participants are turning to increased technological innovation to meet the regulators’ and industry’s demands.

You want representation that knows the global factors influencing your industry and can help you shape the market of tomorrow, with a deep knowledge and understanding of how infrastructure systems are operated and regulated.

Dentons has those knowledgeable lawyers. Leverage our deep experience in acting for several exchanges, execution facilities, clearing houses, depositories and key market participants, such as clearing members, broker-dealers and end users, in established and developing markets.

Our regulatory, financial and physical markets professionals work closely with our information technology lawyers to deliver streamlined solutions for infrastructure providers and market participants. We work as a global team and can provide cross-jurisdictional comparative insights; essential in today’s increasingly globalized world economy.

Look to our lawyers for effective solutions in market infrastructure, including:

• Clearing agencies and depositories
• Energy and commodity trading
• Derivative trading, including listed derivatives and cleared over-the-counter derivatives
• Securities (including fixed income and equities) and trading
• Foreign exchange trading
• Securities issuances and listings
• Portfolio asset diligence, acquisitions and divestitures
• Investment advisors
• Investment funds, including exchange-traded funds, structuring and listing
• Financial institutions regulation
• Financial markets litigation
• Stock exchange regulation

Insights

Financial markets – latest regulatory news

March 4, 2022

Ukraine: On March 2, 2022 the Board of the National Bank of Ukraine (the NBU) issued Resolution No. 30, which amends Resolution No. 18 “On Operation of the Banking System under Martial Law.” 

Practical Guidance on Writing an Outsourcing Policy

July 6, 2015

For businesses that operate within the financially regulated sector, there are invariably detailed and often prescriptive rules that apply to outsourcing arrangements. These rules aim to ensure that the firm retains appropriate control or oversight of the activities it outsources, with the ultimate objective of protecting clients (and, in some instances where it is a systemically important institution, contributing to the overall stability of the financial system).