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 ...

The European Commission has proposed a one-year extension to the application date of its revised Markets in Financial Instruments Directive, better known as MiFID II, a comprehensive slate of unified ...

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 ...

The Markets in Financial Directive (“MiFID”) is a European Union law that provides harmonized regulation for investment services across the 31 member states of the European Economic Area (the 28 EU ...

In Europe, the second Markets in Financial Instruments Directive and Regulation (MiFID II/MiFIR) have been with us since January 2018. In the preceding months, market participants completed multi-year ...

A couple of months have passed since the launch of the MiFID II requirements, and the market has begun to discern this new trading landscape. Many are beginning to wonder whether the regulatory goals ...

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 damage done to mid-cap equities coverage by unbundling research is ever harder to ignore. It will not be easy to lower this self-imposed barrier to improved capital-markets access for fast-growing ...

Europe’s new trading and transparency regime promised a lot. For the first time outside the equities market, investors would have data enabling them to properly compare prices, benchmark their trades ...

There have been many changes within the economic landscape in Europe and the United Kingdom since the first agreement that launched the Markets in Financial Derivatives (MiFID) protocols in 2007 were ...