Time to finalise your trade transparency solutions and vendor arrangements! As of tomorrow, there will only be 150 days left until MiFID II goes live. As we quickly approach the 3rd of January 2018, it is essential that firms finalise their MiFID II arrangements.
Tuesday (1 August, 2017) - TRADEcho announced the availability of their APA lite service, helping small to medium sized firms meet their MiFID II transparency obligations.
Over the past months ESMA has published a number of opinions and letters in relation to the supervisory convergence in a number of areas in the context of the United Kingdom withdrawing from the European Union which can be read here.
Yesterday, the 10th of July 2016, ESMA updated their Q&As on MiFIR data reporting, MiFID II and MiFIR commodity derivatives and MiFID II and MiFIR market structure topics.
On Monday, the 3rd of July 2017, ESMA published an opinion on Interim Transparency Calculations under MIFID II. Following the opinion the TRADEcho regulatory team have issued this summary.
On Tuesday the 20th of June, ESMA published a consultation paper on the Trading Obligation under MiFID II, providing clarification on which derivatives will be obliged to trade on trading venues. On the back of the consultation paper the TRADEcho regulatory team have put together this summary.
MiFID II introduces increased pre- and post-trade transparency obligations and expands the scope of MiFID to encompass Equity-Like and Non-Equity instruments, including Commodities, Fixed Income and FX markets. This will transform the trading landscape across the EU as more financial instruments are forced onto regulated and authorised Trading Venues or Systematic Internalisers.
On the back of the Assisted Reporting webinar last week the TRADEcho team have put together this Q&A to answer firms' MiFID II Assisted Reporting questions.
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