Tag: MiFID II compliance

gdpr are you ready
February 13, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

MiFID II Is Now in Effect, but Will It Conflict with the Upcoming GDPR?

The following article was written by Scott Whitney, senior vice president of product management at communications compliance, archiving, and analytics company Actiance. Much has been written about Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) over the past year. But only recently people have people started to notice that…

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FCA publishes its Quarterly KPIs, no clear trends indicative of firm responses to Brexit
September 04, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

CySEC requests FX brokers submit CIF license passport application renewal requests under MiFID II by September 27

Cyprus financial regulator Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) just notified the changes introduced in relation to Passporting Issues and the provision of investment services and activities by third country firms under MiFID II. LeapRate already posted an article on the changes MiFID II will bring to those who passport financial licenses. The complete text…

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FCA publishes its Quarterly KPIs, no clear trends indicative of firm responses to Brexit
August 24, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

MiFID II passporting changes for FX brokers highlighted by CySEC

Cyprus financial regulator CySEC has issued a circular highlighting the changes which will take effect come January 2018 in how CySEC-regulated brokers can passport their CIF license to other EU countries. Cyprus based CIF license holders, and in particular Retail FX and CFD brokers, rely on passporting to allow them to do everything from take…

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FlexTrade integrates MSCI Risk and Factor Analysis
May 15, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

FlexTrade launches FlexAlgoWheel interface for trading algo selection

Multi-asset execution and order management systems company FlexTrade Systems has announced the rollout of FlexAlgoWheel, its next generation, data-driven interface to algo selection. FlexAlgoWheel incorporates real-time internal and external inputs as well as TCA to optimize the broker and algo selection process. According to Vijay Kedia, President and CEO of FlexTrade, An important, yet repetitive…

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