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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This snappily-named markets and financial instruments directive, otherwise known as Mifid II, will reform trading in markets in Europe and beyond. Seven years in the making, it boasts 30,000 pages and ...

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 ...

MiCA and MiFID II frameworks create blind spots for non-transferable tokenized assets. EU Blockchain Sandbox’s “digital twin” ...

Firms should be more proactive in the process of complying with Mifid regulations, says P.J. Di Giammarino, founder and CEO of JWG-IT. "The regulators don't prescribe how to do it. It's our job to ...

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 ...