Markets in Financial Instruments Directive
End ‘senseless’ ban on midpoint trading, asset managers urge
Investors decry European rule that forces them to trade some equities in whole tick sizes
Brexit drives swaps trading to US platforms
Lack of equivalence forces dealers to shift euro and sterling swaps out of European and UK venues
French regulator questions need for share trading equivalence
Esma’s reinterpretation ahead of Brexit reduces need for equivalence system, says AMF official
Trading heads call for reform of double volume caps
Asset managers endorse UK move on caps and back changes to EU’s unloved share trading restrictions
The lonely Londoners: doubts plague UK quest for equivalence
Planned MoU won’t automatically bring equivalence, leaving firms in limbo for unknown duration
UK offers unlimited dark trading on lost EU stocks
FCA gives London dark pools an edge over EU rivals, but will fund managers use it?
Mifid transparency battle pits dealers against non-banks
Dealers fight to preserve reporting exemptions, but prop traders want US-style regime
EC looks to GFXC on potential regulation of spot FX
GFXC to meet this week about revising global FX code, which may influence European legislator stance
November 9: the day the Brexodus started?
The UK Treasury’s equivalence verdict is a positive gesture, but could backfire if not reciprocated
Botched copy: Esma delivers cut and paste pastiche of Trace
Mifid transparency mishmash misses key aspects of US system it emulates, say dealers
Mifid best execution relief for buy side hangs by a thread
Largest grouping in European Parliament faces uphill battle to suspend RTS 28 reporting
UK and EU regulators diverging on double volume caps
Rule that limits anonymous equities trading to be reviewed in UK, but EC has bigger fish to fry
EU defers legal fix to Brexit swaps trading ban on branches
Efforts to address duplicate Mifir trading obligations stymied by UK-EU negotiations
Rethink of Mifid, MAR extraterritorial impact ‘on the table’
Brexit could lead to firms facing different compliance requirements on the same trades
Hedge funds eye Brexit escape from Mifid reporting
UK tipped to diverge from Europe’s proposed reforms to fund manager rules
Buy side confronts dealers over unreliable bond prices
Investors are quantifying the quality of indicative prices and banding together to tackle the issue
AFM seeks to ‘level playing field’ for venues and vendors
Dutch regulator suggests some liquidity aggregators should be classified as OTFs
Buy side hopes for best execution reporting carve-out
After EC exempts venues from best execution reporting, Aima hopes RTS 28 reports will be next
CFTC block trade plan gets cold shoulder
Industry divided over swaps reform proposal, and advisory committee casts doubt on need for it
Transparency vs clarity: the Mifid swaps conundrum
Participants want better OTC transparency, but say Esma’s efforts at clarity could muddy the picture
No Mifid equivalence for UK at end of Brexit transition
Footnote reveals assessment delay beyond January 2021, piling pressure on London-based firms
Mifid’s pre-trade transparency is ‘a failed experiment’
Market participants say benefits of altering pre-trade transparency rules are small
‘Improving’ Mifid post-trade transparency splits markets
Mooted changes to Europe’s transparency regime are dividing markets – largely along functional lines
Buy-side firms reject EMS brokerage charges
Some users favour licence fee over per-trade charging – and have forced vendors to switch