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European exchanges clash with customers over fees rise
December 27, 2017--Battle between Spanish bourse and UBS is flashpoint in fight about pre-Mifid charges
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Source: FT.com
ESMA publishes updated key transparency calculations for MiFIDII/MiFIR implementation
December 22, 2017--The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published an updated version of the MiFID II/MiFIR transitional transparency calculations (TTC) for equity and bond instruments.
This updated version mainly reflect schanges in the classification of the instruments and the related parameters and resubmission of data by some trading venues. This new version is the one to be used by market participants, infrastructures and authorities under the new regulatory framework from 3 January 2018.
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Source: ESMA
HANetf makes two senior hires as demand grows for white label ETFs
December 22, 2017--HANetf, Europe's first independent white label ETF platform founded by Hector McNeil and Nik Bienkowski, has appointed Samir Patel as general counsel and Ignatius Faissal as director of product management.
Patel brings more than 20 years' legal and compliance experience in the investment fund sector, most recently at AllianceBernstein.
Optiver & Equiduct offer best execution for equities and ETFs view more National Statistics: Forecasts for the UK economy: December 2017 Monthly report: Clearstream sees successful year 2017 view more Online derivatives traders hit by new European rules on retail client leverage Thomson Reuters Monday Morning Memo: Review of the European ETF Market, November 2017 view more ESMA provides guidance on cross-border investment services and MiFID transposition view more ESMA updates its MiFID II Q&As on transparency and market structures view more
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Source: HANetf
December 20, 2017-- Optiver has entered into an agreement with trading venue Equiduct, offering brokers a one-stop-shop solution to achieve best execution for their European equity and ETF order flow.
Under the agreement Optiver will provide continuous liquidity in European stocks and ETFs on Equiduct against the European volume-weighted best bid and offer.
Source: automatedtrader.net
December 20, 2017--Forecasts for the UK economy is a monthly comparison of independent forecasts.
Please note that this is a summary of published material reflecting the views of the forecasting organisations themselves and does not in any way provide new information on the Treasury's own views.
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Source: HM Treasury
December 20, 2017--In 2017, the post-trade industry has seen a major infrastructure evolution. With completion of the European Central Bank's TARGET2-Securities (T2S) project and preparations for the Central Securities Depositories Regulation (CSD-R), some fundamental changes have been kicked off in the European post-trade market.
"2017 was about reshaping and harmonizing Europe's fragmented post-trade landscape to create a level playing field for all market participants", said Jeffrey Tessler, Deutsche Börse Group Board Member and Chairman of the Group's post-trade services provider Clearstream.
Source: Clearstream
December 18, 2017--Shares in large online derivatives trading platforms groups plummeted as much as 20 per cent on Monday morning, after European regulators announced tougher-than-feared plans to restrict the amounts retail customers can borrow to leverage their bets.
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Source: FT.com
December 18, 2017--The promoters of ETFs enjoyed net inflows for November. The assets under management in the European ETF industry (€627.1 bn) increased for November, up from €621.9 bn at the end of October.
The increase of €5.2 bn for November was driven by net sales (+€9.5 bn), while the performance of the underlying markets contributed a negative €4.3 bn to the assets under management in the ETF segment. With regard to the overall number of products, it was not surprising that equity funds (€445.0 bn) held the majority of the assets, followed by bond funds (€152.6 bn), commodity products (€18.3 bn), "other" funds (€6.9 bn), money market funds (€3.3 bn), mixed-asset funds (€0.6 bn), and alternative UCITS products (€0.4 bn).
Source: Detlef Glow, Head of EMEA Research-Thomson Reuters Lipper
December 18, 2017--The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) issued today guidance to national competent authorities (NCAs) and market participants on the topic of continuity of cross-border provision of investment services in the transition between MiFID I and MiFID II, including in the event that there is late transposition of the Directive by some Member States.
In this context, ESMA also issued guidance on the cross-border operation of regulated markets and the provision of data reporting service providers (DRSPs).
Source: ESMA
December 18, 2017--The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has today updated its Questions and Answers regarding transparency and market structures issues under the Market in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) and Regulation (MiFIR).
The purpose of these Q&As is to promote common supervisory approaches and practices in the application of MiFID II and MiFIR. They provide responses to questions posed by the general public and market participants in relation to the practical application of transparency ...
Source: ESMA
