04/04/2022 (Agence Europe) – The European Commission adopted, on Monday 4 April, a decision establishing equivalence between EU regulated markets and a number of US exchanges supervised by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (US SEC). Derivatives traded on these US exchanges will now be treated as exchange-traded derivatives under EU law. The Commission also amended its equivalence decision on US clearing houses (CCPs) (see EUROPE 12919/22). The aim is to facilitate access to these CCPs for EU market players. “These decisions are in the interest of the EU, we want our capital markets to be better integrated with other international markets”, said Mairead McGuinness, the EU commissioner for financial stability, financial services and capital markets union, in a statement. (AD)