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 ...

Bitcoin derivatives trading platform Backpack EU has officially launched its regulated crypto derivatives platform in Europe.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 review of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (Mifid II) will require firms engaged in algorithmic trading to be able to stress test their platforms by simulating two times the highest ...