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Anne Plested

MiFID II choice cuts

The overhaul of transaction reporting under MiFID II continues unabated in the latest ESMA drafts, with new obligations and data changes still being introduced. Aimed at improving the quality of data ...

08 Oct 2015
Anne Plested

Doesn’t ESMA time fly!

Looking at the latest changes regarding accuracy of business clocks, now reincarnated as RTS 25, I noticed a number of interesting points in the text. Most importantly, the absence of the usual claus...

06 Oct 2015
Anne Plested

All together now

A common approach will be key to minimising the fallout of MiFID II implementation, particularly around the extra data required for record keeping and transaction reporting and for algo identification...

01 Sep 2015
Anne Plested

MiFID II data disaggregation - be careful what you wish for!

Under MiFID II pre- and post-trade data is required to be made available in an unbundled fashion – ultimately the regulator is aiming to drive down data costs. So where trading venues sell their pre- ...

28 May 2015
Anne Plested

ESMA stops short of a no-action letter

Having taken several years to get through the review of MiFID, it was interesting to hear from ESMA chair Steven Maijoor last week that there is an appetite to “explore the mechanisms to address regul...

30 Mar 2015
Anne Plested

Change is the only constant

The unbundling of payment for research is a top concern for the industry. There seems to be general acceptance that, one way or another, Europe is set on the soft dollar research market becoming a har...

19 Mar 2015

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