The European Supervisory Authorities have clarified some of the finer points around the Key Information Document required under the Packaged Retail and Insurance-based Investment Products Regulation
The authority has set out the ways in which the UK's policy will go beyond the requirements of the directive, but noted that it has an obligation to consider the government’s economic policies
New rules under MiFID II could restrict liquidity in the market and have a negative effect on securities lending and repo industry, according to Anna Biala, a partner at Clifford Chance
Asset managers are cutting it fine in compliance with research unbundling rules under MiFID II, with 85 percent saying they expect to be compliant in Q4 2017 or later, ahead of the January 2018 deadline
The association also point to increased automation of highly manual and labour-intensive processes of the market as a way to mitigate rising costs and create efficiencies
Broadridge is addressing trade reporting requirements set to come in with the Securities Financing Transaction Regulation, launching a new solution spanning the entire reporting lifecycle
The regulatory environment is breeding change, and complication, for both investors and fund managers, according to panellists at Fund Forum International in Berlin
The European Commission is to hand the European Securities and Markets Association more powers in order to improve the effectiveness of the Capital Markets Union
US President Donald Trump’s efforts to turn back the clock by gutting the bulk of post-crisis regulation took another step forward yesterday, with the House of Representatives passing the Financial CHOICE Act unopposed
Some UK-based firms engaged in dividend arbitrage may not be identifying the risk posed by contrived or fraudulent trading for the purpose of making illegitimate withholding tax reclaims, according to the FCA
