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A year to go - more or less

With just 364 days left to go, the MiFID II go-live date looms large. But with complex regulation spanning several hundred pages of text it is no great surprise that some MiFID II deadlines will come in earlier than 3rd January 2018, while others leave more breathing space. For example, trading venues must submit their waiver applications to their...

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Transition relief won’t ease the pain of Section 871m

Banks and buysides thought the holidays came early this year as the IRS issued transition relief guidance for Section 871(m) in the form of Notice 2016-76. There were sounds of rejoice with changes to the threshold for US equity derivatives products. The notice highlights that the regulations will only apply to delta-one transactions for 2017, thos...

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Mince pies and MiFID

I spent the holidays diligently researching the best brand of mince pies in order to settle a pre-Christmas debate here at the office. Naturally my criteria included a number of factors including (but not just) price and, perhaps surprisingly, the winner was Tesco's in-house bakery. Back at work, my attention turned to my other favourite M word – ...

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