The issue of how investment research should be paid for by investors is controversial, long-standing and seemingly perennially the subject of legislative iterations, failure and unintended consequence ...

The issue of how firms should pay for investment research continues to be a controversial topic in the financial markets. The U.S. has maintained the approach it adopted before the mid-2000s, which is ...

In Europe, the second Markets in Financial Instruments Directive and Regulation (MiFID II/MiFIR) have been with us since January 2018. In the preceding months, market participants completed multi-year ...

The second Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) has “largely been successful across most parts of the market and the industry has bent over backwards to implement reforms, despite ...

It would be understandable if many firms decided to crack open the champagne in celebration of the decision to delay the implementation date of MiFID II by 12 months. MiFID II is an enormous ...

TRAction, a regulatory reporting services provider, has introduced a new solution to help UK and European investment managers with the second Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) ...

The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is hoping to publish the long-awaited conclusions of its review into the implementation of the EU’s Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (Mifid II) ...

New research from the University of Bath shows the European Union's MiFID II financial market reforms inadvertently reduced research activity and adversely affected liquidity in London's main stock ...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Europe's top securities regulator expects the European Commission to propose a delay to the introduction of sweeping new trading rules "within weeks" but warned on Monday that a ...

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 ...

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 ...

New research from the University of Bath shows the European Union’s MiFID II financial market reforms inadvertently reduced research activity and adversely affected liquidity in London’s main stock ...