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 ...

The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has unveiled a sweeping set of proposals to overhaul MiFID-era transaction ...

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 ...

The Financial Conduct Authority has published a consultation paper on the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive Organisational Regulation (MiFID Org Reg). The FCA is consulting on proposals to ...

The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published policy statement PS25/13, finalising the transfer of firm-facing requirements from the UK version of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...