The issue of how investment research should be paid for by investors is controversial, long-standing and seemingly perennially the subject of legislative iterations, failure and unintended consequence ...

The issue of how firms should pay for investment research continues to be a controversial topic in the financial markets. The U.S. has maintained the approach it adopted before the mid-2000s, which is ...

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 ...

European bond markets are still waiting to experience the benefits of the second Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) and Regulation (MiFIR), a report from the International Capital ...

Cyprus and European capital markets are entering a new phase in 2026, shaped by sweeping regulatory changes and heightened supervisory expectations, according to Cyprus Securities and Exchange ...

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) ...

Electronification and regulations such as Mifid II that touch upon the fixed-income trading space may be attempting to mirror the equities model but cannot succeed due to specific differences between ...

The three legislative institutions of the European Union reached agreement on MiFID II / MiFIR on 14th January 2014. The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has now commenced work on ...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Europe's top securities regulator expects the European Commission to propose a delay to the introduction of sweeping new trading rules "within weeks" but warned on Monday that a ...

New research from the University of Bath shows the European Union's MiFID II financial market reforms inadvertently reduced research activity and adversely affected liquidity in London's main stock ...

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 ...

The second Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) has “largely been successful across most parts of the market and the industry has bent over backwards to implement reforms, despite ...