A consortium of technology vendors, led by Sun Microsystems and Avitis, are forming a pan-European alliance that aims to help financial services firms comply with the European Union's Markets in ...

As part of the UK's preparations for MiFID, the Financial Services Authority (FSA) released its final two consultation papers incorporating changes required by MiFID on 31 October 2006. The ...

Four major industry associations last week announced the creation of a Joint Working Group to address the compliance requirements created by the European Union Markets in Financial Instruments ...

Several fixed income trading venues have got together to form a lobby group aimed at representing the interests of electronic bond markets. The Electronic Debt Markets Association Europe (EDMA Europe) ...

DST International (DSTi), the leader in business solutions for the financial services industry, announces today that a team of experts has aligned and extended its technology solutions to support ...

Commcise and Convergexs Westminster Research Associates announced that the two firms will offer a fully integrated, technology-based solution that provides a complete end-to-end solution that allows ...

This is the second in a series of blog posts on MiFID II(Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II). If you missed the first post, seeMiFID II: How Did We Get Here and What Does it Mean?Continuing ...

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 ...

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 ...

ESMA’s final report on periodic auctions says venues are not used to evade MiFID II dark trading rules, as fears of outright ban are dampened. Periodic auctions operating in the new trading ...