New regulations in the North American and European markets are changing the requirements for firms middle- and back-office operations. These new requirements are difficult for firms to meet, ...

Money managers and investment associations across Europe are weighing in on how MiFID II should be revised when it comes up for its first review in March, saying the regulation has fallen short on ...

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The Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (Mifid) was first adopted in 2007 in order to create a single market for the European financial services industry, focusing mostly on equities. But when ...

The European Commission will impose a non-negotiable regulation on member states, in addition to its planned revisions to MiFID, to ensure its ideas for competitive securities markets come to fruition ...

Data management provider AutoRek has published guidelines on how firms can avoid incurring penalties under the second Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II). Recommendations include the ...

The sky hasnt fallen – at least not yet. This past Saturday marked the one month anniversary of the implementation of the much hyped Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) directive.

The Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (“MiFID II”), which came into effect on 3 January 2018, is a European legislation, consisting of two parts, the MiFID II directive (2014/65/EU) and the ...

When European lawmakers first envisaged the new era of transparency in European markets, with information on the trades that take place on a daily basis freely available to the public, they didn’t ...

A significant 44% of traders believe MiFID II will not push them to execute in larger block sizes, despite dark pool restrictions largely tipped to cause a shift towards block trading. A survey ...

MiFID II seemed so far away when it was pushed back until January 3rd 2018!! This has been a long time coming, and despite the looming deadline, firms are still trying to work out what they need to do ...

The revised EU Markets in Financial Instruments package—known as MiFID II—takes effect on January 3, 2018. Some aspects of this legislation are extra-territorial. New rules on inducements, the ...