The TRADE looks at how the industry has adapted to the new trading environment and the major issues facing market participants following the implementation of MiFID II six months ago. It was a long ...

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 ...

MiFID is the key European legislation that provides the basis for providing services on financial instruments in Europe. The currently ongoing revision of MiFID is an essential part of many structural ...

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 ...

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 ...

On February 10, the European Commission published a press release announcing it is proposing a one year extension to the application date of the MiFID II legislative package (that is, the MiFID II ...

The ever-evolving regulatory landscape forces financial institutions (FIs) to solve multiple regulatory and compliance rules simultaneously; a situation that has become even more complicated during ...

A survey last year found more than three-quarters (77 per cent) of pension schemes feel they do not necessarily have the operational infrastructure in place to accommodate change, such as the ...

North American broker-dealers and asset managers domiciled in the U.S. are watching their European counterparts gear up for compliance with MiFID II. But will MiFID II affect U.S. broker-dealers and ...

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 ...