This is the second in a series of blog posts on MiFID II(Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II). If you missed the first post, seeMiFID II: How Did We Get Here and What Does it Mean?Continuing ...

The introduction of MiFID II in January 2017 is still shrouded in uncertainty for both market participants and regulators, with industry readiness varying across the board and a question mark hanging ...

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published a press release sharing its view that the pre-trade controls that investment firms have implemented warrant further convergence. The ...

The Prudential Regulation Authority published its final rules for transposing passporting and algorithmic trading aspects of the Markets in Financial Instruments legislative package, which comprises ...

The final draft of the European Commission’s proposed revisions to MiFID will impose new restrictions on high-frequency trading, confirm a ban organised trading facilities from crossing against prop ...

“In some ways it is not surprising that electronic trading is rising so sharply, given the products that are now in scope of Mifid II,” says Scott Wacker, global head of e-commerce sales and marketing ...

As hedge funds increasingly turn to machine learning techniques in their trading strategies, regulators and clients are having to come to terms with money being managed by black box algorithms, so who ...

With the release of Mifid II proposals yesterday from the European Commission, reaction has varied considerably between sectors of the market. Exchanges, on the whole, have been broadly welcoming of ...

This analysis is by Bloomberg Intelligence Director for Market Structure Research Larry R Tabb and Senior Government Analyst Sarah Jane Mahmud. It appeared first on the Bloomberg Terminal. Algorithmic ...

A significant amount of order flow is handled by algorithms nowadays. That’s because algorithms allow firms to make more efficient buy and sell decisions. In addition, algorithms can execute orders ...