If you manage IT at an EU-based financial institution, you are likely staring down an onslaught of new rules from the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II). MiFID II picks up where ...

Time is running out for European financial institutions to establish a framework for complying with European Union MiFID directives by its implementation date of April 2007. DSTi's Ian Hunt looks at ...

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 ...

European participants waiting for an improvement in fixed income transparency before returning to the market will have to wait longer than expected, after the Council of the European Union postponed ...

The UK Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) new rules offer asset managers greater flexibility in how they pay for research, reintroducing elements of commission sharing without abandoning Mifid II’s ...

“People are struggling with the categorizations of complex and non-complex instruments,” says Anders Malm, a partner with Stockholm-based law firm Oreum, which provides legal advice and services to ...

FIX has been at the forefront of electronic trading for over two decades now. Whilst its roots, for obvious reasons, are within technology departments, it has been a combination of technicians and ...

Regtech firm Qomply is set to launch a free service to enable market participants to determine reportability of an instrument on a given trade date and location amid concerns around the FCA breaking ...