Bats Europe, a CBOE Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: CBOE) company, just announced it has expanded its trade reporting facility, BXTR, to offer a new service that enables buyside firms to meet their trade reporting obligations under MiFID II. The new service, an assisted reporting model, allows buy-side firms to enable their brokers to submit trade reports on…
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The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has issued today regulatory technical standards (RTS) specifying the scope of the consolidated tape for bonds, structured finance products, emission allowances and derivatives. The Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) introduces the concept of consolidated tape providers (CTPs). CTPs will collect post-trade information published by trading venues…
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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has today published near final rules on the implementation of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) II. These include changes to the trading of financial instruments including issues affecting trading venues, transparency of trading and algorithmic and high frequency trading. The FCA is also providing an update on the…
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Match-Trade Technologies, headquartered in Irvine, California, today announced the launch of new services which will enable brokers to become compliant with European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) and the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MIFID II) new regulations and guidelines. The offering will provide dedicated solutions to meet the best execution policy requirements described in…
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The following guest post is courtesy of Ivy Schmerken, Editorial Director at FlexTrade. North American broker-dealers and asset managers domiciled in the U.S. are watching their European counterparts gear up for compliance with MiFID II. But will MiFID II affect U.S. broker-dealers and asset managers based in the U.S.? Could the massive regulation that requires…
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MTS, one of Europe’s premier fixed income electronic trading venues, is helping buy- and sell-side customers across its electronic marketplaces prepare for compliance with MiFID II and MiFIR regulatory standards ahead of the introduction of the new legislation in January 2018 with the launch of a dedicated web portal and trade reporting service. With over…
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Information giant Thomson Reuters Corp (NYSE:TRI) is creating a holistic suite of reporting services that will support the workflow of market participants in their efforts to meet post-trade transparency requirements mandated by the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II). In preparation for the new regulations, the company is working closely with over 50…
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Trax, a provider of regulatory reporting, trade matching and capital market data services, has reached agreement with Droit Financial Technologies (Droit), the provider of real-time global regulatory decision systems for capital markets, to offer an eligibility determination and regulatory reporting service to help firms meet the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) for derivatives. The Trax…
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The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has written to the European Commission to raise its concern over the potential establishment of networks of systematic internalisers (SIs) by investment firms to circumvent certain MIFID II obligations; in particular, the requirements for investment firms operating internal matching systems and executing client orders on a multilateral basis…
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smartTrade Technologies, a multi-asset electronic trading solutions company, has been working with a number of institutions on MiFIR/MiFID II implementations. Transparency, algorithmic trading and transaction reporting are some of the key areas of concern identified. With less than a year before January 3rd, 2018 deadline, smartTrade announced that it is ready for MiFID II challenges.…
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