Tag: MiFID II

TORA unavista MiFID reporting
June 22, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

TORA Partners with LSEG’s UnaVista for MiFID II transaction reporting

TORA, provider of advanced cloud-based order and execution management system (OEMS), today announced that it has joined the London Stock Exchange Group’s UnaVista Partner Programme to help clients meet the transaction reporting requirements of MiFID II. When MiFID II comes into force in January 2018, buy-side firms will be required to submit transaction reports directly…

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June 15, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Trax and Bats Europe connect for MIFID II equities trade reporting

Trax, a subsidiary of MarketAxess Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:MKTX) and a provider of regulatory reporting, trade matching and capital market data services, and Bats Europe, a CBOE Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:CBOE) company, today announced plans to offer Trax Approved Publication Arrangement (APA) customers the choice to direct equity trade reports to the Bats APA in order to…

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June 13, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

ResearchPool launches TRUE, a MiFID II solution

ResearchPool, a global digital platform for investment research, announces the launch of its MiFID II solution for investment firms to manage budget, spending, consume and evaluate research, named Tool for Research Usage and Evaluation (TRUE). TRUE is an advanced proprietary solution to enable investment firms to easily manage and control research spending and usage by…

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June 06, 2017 BY admin

InfoReach announces support for microsecond trading timestamps for MiFID II compliance

InfoReach believes they have gone the extra mile to provide for the needs of the future by preemptively meeting the increasing demands and expectations of modern trading applications. InfoReach, Inc., a global provider of high-performance electronic-trading technology for capital markets, announced support for nanosecond granularity in the accuracy of its products' timestamps. This new technology serves…

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ESMA ceases renewal of product intervention CFDs measures
May 22, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

ESMA clarifies traded on a trading venue under MIFID II

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has issued today an opinion regarding the implementation of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) and Regulation (MiFIR). The opinion clarifies the concept of “traded on a trading venue” (TOTV), which is relevant for a number of provisions under MIFID II and MiFIR. The concept of…

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May 15, 2017 BY admin

Tradeweb adds 4 more banks to MiFID II reporting service

Tradeweb Markets, a leading global provider of fixed income, derivatives and ETF marketplaces, announced that BNP Paribas, Credit Suisse, Morgan Stanley and Societe Generale are among the latest clients to join Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan in selecting its Approved Publication Arrangement (APA) service. The Tradeweb APA allows firms to meet pre and post-trade transparency…

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May 11, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

AMF consults on changes to its General Regulation ahead of MiFID II

As part of the reform of its markets in financial instruments directive, on 7 April 2016 the European Commission adopted a delegated directive that sets out provisions on the safeguarding of financial instruments and funds, product governance and inducements. Ahead of the directive’s transposition into the General Regulation, the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) has…

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April 25, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

ENSO expands Broker Vote Tool to offer MiFID II research solution powered by RSRCHXchange

ENSO, a NEX Group (LON:NXG) business and portfolio finance and centralized treasury management solution for the buy-side, announced today that it plans to expand the ENSO Broker Vote tool to include MiFID II research consumption, powered by RSRCHXchange, the MiFID II compliant marketplace for institutional research. The expanded tool will provide buy-side institutions with evidence-based…

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ESMA bond liquidity data
April 04, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

ESMA updates MIFID II/MIFIR investor protection Q&As

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has added 10 new Q&As to its Questions and Answers (Q&A) document on the implementation of investor protection topics under the Market in Financial Instruments Directive and Regulation (MiFID II/ MiFIR). The MiFID II Q&A provide clarifications on the following topics: Best execution; Suitability; Post sale reporting; Inducements…

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