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 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 ...

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 ...

A quiet standoff is developing among asset managers in Europe that threatens to frustrate an effort to make the region’s struggling markets more competitive.

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 ...

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 ...

MiCA and MiFID II frameworks create blind spots for non-transferable tokenized assets. EU Blockchain Sandbox’s “digital twin” ...

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 ...

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 ...

Firms should be more proactive in the process of complying with Mifid regulations, says P.J. Di Giammarino, founder and CEO of JWG-IT. "The regulators don't prescribe how to do it. It's our job to ...