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John Cant

The MiFID is dead, long live the ... ELF?

Okay, so you are probably reading this blog because of the title, so I had best explain what it is all about. In the olden days - so I understand - when the UK Monarch died, a courtier used to announc...

30 Nov 2007
MiFID
John Cant

First MiFID Market impact?

The FT has reported that the UK's only residential property stock exchange, the Property Investment Market, has been forced to suspend its business after failing to meet new MiFID regulations. They ...

22 Nov 2007
MiFID
A Finextra Member

Decade of Weather Derivatives Markets!!!

After nearly a decade of weather derivatives trading, the exchange traded weather risk products started picking up in volumes and popularity, but still there are a lots of interesting points to observ...

20 Nov 2007
MiFID
A Finextra Member

Trading to take a latency advantage!!

With increased Algorithamic trading, latency is becoming such a differentiator and competitive advantage in a lot of markets, that firms are looking hard for any chance to make them a little faster th...

19 Nov 2007
MiFID
John Cant

Avoiding a MiFID Hangover

So you survived MiFID Day, and indeed the first MiFID week; survived the incessant MiFID blogs and weeklong MiFID press coverage, History of MiFID, MiFID in numbers, and special features on MIFID from...

07 Nov 2007
MiFID
John Cant

We understand there is still some confusion ...

I think this direct quote from one of the template MiFID letters being sent by clients to their brokers is a slight understatement! With only a few hours to go before the MiFID gun fires, a massive pa...

31 Oct 2007
MiFID
John Cant

First test for MiFID ...

As I write this blog, teams across the UK are putting their final MiFID changes into systems ready for M-Day this week. Although MiFID is a Europe wide regulation - I say across the UK deliberately. W...

28 Oct 2007
MiFID
A Finextra Member

Best Execution is big challenge to all...

Best execution is one of the most critical challenges in trade order management, as we all know. It involves a lot of steps including prioritisation of factors, analysis and selection of execution ven...

12 Oct 2007
MiFID
Paul Penrose

BeX failure bodes ill for Turquoise

The decision of the Boston Stock Exchange to shutter its new electronic equities trading venture BeX within nine months of its live launch in December last year is bad news for other up-and-coming com...

05 Sep 2007
MiFID
Elton Cane

MiFID and electronic signatures

I participated in a roundtable recently held by compliance vendor NetConsent. It was a fairly broad-ranging discussion about how digital certificate and e-signature solutions have evolved and been ado...

07 Aug 2007
MiFID
Elton Cane

Market data boom part 2 - more numbers

Following on from Chris Pickle's response to the recent TowerGroup study on regulation-driven market data volume growth, it was interesting to note Datamonitor's similar report being published this we...

02 Aug 2007
MiFID
John Cant

MiFID - gunpowder, treason and plot

The FSA have proposed this week that the cutover date for MiFID transaction reporting should move from 1st November to 5th November (i.e. to a more conventional Monday go live date) giving more time o...

02 Aug 2007
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