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MiFID II Author Warns Brexit Could Undo Years of Financial Reform
By Samuel Agini
April 18, 2018, Financial News
A leading European politician who spent the best part of a decade helping to shape post-crisis financial regulation has warned that Brexit …
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Eurozone Investors Race Up Chart of U.S. Debt Owners
By Kate Allen
April 17, 2018, Financial Times
Eurozone investors have been the biggest overseas net buyers of U.S. debt securities in the past half-decade, a trend that could reverse …
Read More →Where the SEC Access Fee Pilot Could Go Wrong
Access fees and rebates have been a primary point of contention in the equities market structure debate for years, and the SEC’s recently announced access fee pilot will have wide-ranging …
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Curtains for Experiment Meant to Boost Trading in Small Stocks
By Dave Michaels
April 10, 2018, The Wall Street Journal
A stock-market experiment designed to make small stocks more attractive to investors hasn’t yielded the silver bullet its supporters had …
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China Takes New Step Toward Opening Its Financial Markets to the World
By Shen Hong
April 11, 2018, The Wall Street Journal
China has pledged to launch a stock trading link between Shanghai and London by the end of this year, taking …
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China Considers Looser Curbs on Stock Index Futures
April 11, 2018, Bloomberg Markets
China is considering a relaxation of stock-index futures trading curbs that were introduced during the nation’s 2015 market crash, people familiar with the matter said.…
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ESMA Urged to Fight ‘Blatant Attempt’ to Dodge MiFID II Share Rules
By Samuel Agini
April 11, 2018, Financial News
One of the authors of Europe’s vast new trading rulebook has called on regulators to investigate “blatant” attempts to undermine the goal …
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MiFID II Could Boost E-Trading in Corporates
By John D’Antona
April 9, 2018, Markets Media
Many traders and pundits saw implementation of MiFID II as a watershed moment in the equities markets. But what about the growing …
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Asset Managers Back U.S. Plan to Limit Stock Exchange Rebates
By John McCrank
April 9, 2018, Reuters
Financial firms representing more than $1 trillion in assets under management have endorsed a U.S. regulator’s plan to test limiting the rebates and …
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Living in the Laboratory: Understanding the SEC’s Transaction Fee Pilot
By George Bollenbacher, Capital Markets Advisors
Originally published on the TabbFORUM
What has become clear is that almost nothing is clear about how fees and rebates impact both execution decision-making …
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