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Retired Member

It is about time

Last Friday, ESMA finally published its long anticipated call for evidence on periodic auctions. Periodic auctions became popular in 2017 and even more so through 2018 and so they are often linked to...

14 Nov 2018
Amrik Sanghera

Will Cost Disclosure Be The 'Halloween' of MiFID II ?

Just when wealth managers thought that they could draw a sigh of relief, knowing that their MiFID II obligations were, if not a thing of the past, at least a part of business, as usual, a sense of fo

30 Oct 2018
Ivy Schmerken

MiFID II Reaches Across the Pond: Is This the Calm Before the Storm?

Despite the view that MiFID II is a European regulation, US investment managers are experiencing disruption as they align their research payment and execution practices with the influential standard. ...

17 Sep 2018
Ivy Schmerken

MiFID II Post-Mortem Cites Delays on LEIs and Data Quality as Key Challenge

With the rollout of such a massive regulation as MiFID II, there are bound to be some hiccups, but so far firms are mainly wrestling with trade reporting and data quality issues. That sentiment was ex...

16 Apr 2018
Retired Member

Non-EU firms and GDPR - Time to face up to compliance

The deadline for meeting the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is on its way. But many non-EU investment management firms may not realize the extent to which they will be affected by this exte...

22 Mar 2018
Retired Member

Is the DVC a ban in disguise?

If you had asked me last year what the actual impact of the double volume cap (DVC) would be, I would have said that it’s ridiculously complex to operate but wouldn’t matter all that much because it w...

08 Mar 2018
Ben Marsh

Financial Regulation: Ten Years of Toil and a Month of MiFID II

In the past decade an unequalled amount of regulatory reform has taken place internationally across the financial services industry; a journey that has not been for the faint-hearted or those lacking ...

23 Feb 2018
Retired Member

Instant trade reconstruction is a challenge!

In regulated environments it’s imperative to invest now to future proof your business – the requirement for transaction reconstruction is not trivial and we suggest a systematic & proactive appro

16 Feb 2018
Ivy Schmerken

Seeking Clarity on MiFID II Inducement Trading Rules

With MIFID II’s rules on inducements now a reality, buy-side firms are paying close attention to the costs associated with their front-office trading platforms and analytics. The EU regulation, which ...

15 Jan 2018

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