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 ...

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 U.K. Financial Conduct Authority has welcomed the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s extension of no-action relief addressing a potential conflict between U.S. regulation and the ...

MiFID II is already more than two months old, but while Systematic Internalisers (SIs) and Approved Publication Arrangements (APAs) create a framework to improve transparency, firms need the right ...

To many it may sound like nothing more than the name of an obscure Welsh hamlet, but anyone working in the world of finance will be acutely aware of the significance of the Markets in Financial ...

The second Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) research unbundling rules are working well for investors, according to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). After conducting research ...

The global research market has lost more than 7,500 years of experience in the U.S. and across Europe since January 2018. Investment research monitoring firm Substantive Research conducted a study of ...

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 House on Tuesday passed a bill to codify now-expired guidance from the Securities and Exchange Commission allowing U.S. broker-dealers to receive separate payments for research without being ...

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) ...

To understand what steps are needed before Mifid II comes into force. To learn how product governance will work under the new directive. To understand whose responsibility various aspects of Mifid II ...