Last year, the European Union told investment firms to make sure retail clients were getting the ESG products they actually wanted. Now, the EU’s markets regulator is about to find out whether ...

The intensification of financial regulation is a fundamental trend transforming the asset management ecosystem. The planned transition to T+1 settlement in 2024 and the forthcoming revision of Mifid ...

Time is running out for European financial institutions to establish a framework for complying with European Union MiFID directives by its implementation date of April 2007. DSTi's Ian Hunt looks at ...

The European Commission’s Markets in Financial Instruments Directive is due for final implementation from November. Many participants in the foreign exchange market still seem to be labouring under ...

From the blog: Most rules handed down from Europe are treated with distrust, and the forthcoming markets in financial instruments directive – or MiFID II – legislation is no exception. Some call it ...

MiCA passed in 2022, but aspects of it are still being worked out. Defining a financial instrument is a big outstanding question. The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) released two ...

A survey last year found more than three-quarters (77 per cent) of pension schemes feel they do not necessarily have the operational infrastructure in place to accommodate change, such as the ...

UK regulator the Financial Services Authority has turned back from proposals set out in a discussion paper published last May on how it might implement the EU’s forthcoming Markets in Financial ...

It seems everyone has something to say about MiFID. European industry bodies and user firms have expressed concerns to the Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR) about the lack of common ...

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FIX has been at the forefront of electronic trading for over two decades now. Whilst its roots, for obvious reasons, are within technology departments, it has been a combination of technicians and ...