New regulations in the North American and European markets are changing the requirements for firms middle- and back-office operations. These new requirements are difficult for firms to meet, ...

The TRADE looks at how the industry has adapted to the new trading environment and the major issues facing market participants following the implementation of MiFID II six months ago. It was a long ...

A main driver for the recently announced MiFID II compliance rules was European Regulators saw unfairness in the practice of asset managers using soft dollars in their fees for research purposes.

Money managers and investment associations across Europe are weighing in on how MiFID II should be revised when it comes up for its first review in March, saying the regulation has fallen short on ...

The Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (“MiFID II”), which came into effect on 3 January 2018, is a European legislation, consisting of two parts, the MiFID II directive (2014/65/EU) and the ...

The European Commission will impose a non-negotiable regulation on member states, in addition to its planned revisions to MiFID, to ensure its ideas for competitive securities markets come to fruition ...

On February 10, the European Commission published a press release announcing it is proposing a one year extension to the application date of the MiFID II legislative package (that is, the MiFID II ...

MiFID is the key European legislation that provides the basis for providing services on financial instruments in Europe. The currently ongoing revision of MiFID is an essential part of many structural ...

When European lawmakers first envisaged the new era of transparency in European markets, with information on the trades that take place on a daily basis freely available to the public, they didn’t ...

North American broker-dealers and asset managers domiciled in the U.S. are watching their European counterparts gear up for compliance with MiFID II. But will MiFID II affect U.S. broker-dealers and ...