Search Results for: MiFID II
Banks May Get Extra Time to Soften Up EU Financial-Market Rules
November 11th, 2015
European Commission considers postponing MiFID II start date Delay isn’t set in stone, European Parliament’s Ferber says Financial companies pushing back against Europe’s post-crisis market rule book for the past five years may get more time to chip away ...
BaFin and the SEC: An international comparison of supervisory practice
November 3rd, 2015
The Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht – BaFin) is often compared to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the media and by the public. The SEC is frequently perceived as the more powerful authority, in ...
Further evidence that new rules could threaten market liquidity in Europe
August 26th, 2015
A preliminary research report by three professors at the Toulouse School of Economics has raised concerns over the impact impending regulations could have on market liquidity. The researchers used data from Euronext to investigate the behaviour of liquidity suppliers during the ...
Bloomberg Receives Multilateral Trading Facility Authorisation from FCA UK
July 27th, 2015
Bloomberg Trading Facility Limited (BTF), an affiliate of Bloomberg LP, announces that it has received authorisation from the UK Financial Conduct Authority to operate a multilateral trading facility (MTF). The MTF draws on Bloomberg’s established and successful trading venue capabilities ...
Linx-Networks teams with VoxSmart to strengthen mobile call recording service
July 16th, 2015
Specialist City trading floor systems integrator, Linx-Networks, is to work with market-leading mobile call recording experts, VoxSmart, to provide trading hubs and solutions that meet the tough new European-wide trading regulations called MiFID II. The new regulations, which become ...
Boutique Asset Managers Focus on European Equities Thanks to Regulations
July 15th, 2015
More regulations are driving smaller niche institutional investors to the European equity markets That’s according to the latest research from Tabb Group, an equity market consultancy, who reported that boutique asset managers are increasingly losing their home country bias ...
Bats Plans Block-Trading Service to Prepare for Dark-Pool Rules
July 14th, 2015
Bats Chi-X Europe will unveil a block-trading initiative within months as markets prepare for European Union rules that will restrict dark-pool trading. “We fully intend to facilitate large-in-scale trading and we will be unveiling highly competitive initiatives in the ...
Winners and losers emerge from fragmented FX swap rules
June 30th, 2015
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) has frequently warned that market fragmentation will continue and market transparency will be damaged as US and European regulators fail to reconcile their FX rule sets. Disharmony is most evident in relation ...
Fidessa launches new order analytics service for derivatives
June 8th, 2015
Continues rollout of derivatives algo capabilities Fidessa group plc (LSE: FDSA) today announced the launch of a powerful new order analytics service for its derivatives community that brings greater precision to the control and measurement of derivatives algos. Order ...
FCA publishes terms of reference for its investment and corporate banking market study
May 22nd, 2015
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has set out the issues it will focus on as part of its market study into competition in investment and corporate banking. These markets are a cornerstone of the UK economy, helping companies raise ...
