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As Industry Group Releases MMT Standards, Participants Question Consolidated Tapes

Industry participants, standards bodies and data vendors last week published version 1.0 of the Market Model Typology (MMT), a framework for standardizing...

Inside Market Data | News | Industry Issues & Initiatives | 30 Jan 2012

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MiFID Forum Awaits ESMA Nod on Standards for Consolidated Tapes

The Real-Time Market Data Subject Group of the MiFID Forum—a working group comprising industry association FISD and standards bodies ISITC Europe, FIX Protocol and TWIST—is awaiting feedback from the European Securities and Markets Authority as to...

Inside Market Data | News | Industry Issues & Initiatives | 05 Dec 2011

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Open Platform: A New Post-Trade Era

The implementation of Mifid across the pan-European marketplace promoted competition among trading venues, the natural beneficiaries of which were buy-side and sell-side firms, and ultimately, their end-investors. This increased competition has now percolated...

Waters | Opinion | Clearing & Settlement | 29 Nov 2011

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Asia-Pacific Financial Information Conference: Vendors Tackle Data ‘Proliferation’ in Asia

Asia’s growth is prompting changes to financial firms’ data requirements, leading to consumption of more data from multiple sources and forcing vendors to address the region differently from their business in other geographies, according to a panel...

Inside Market Data | Analysis | Industry Issues & Initiatives | 14 Nov 2011

Panels Weigh Costs/Benefits of New Regulations

Panelists at the Frankfurt Financial Information Summit debated the impact of new regulations—in particular, the second iteration of the European Commission’s Markets in Financial Instruments Directive, dubbed MiFID 2, for which the EC released draft...

Inside Market Data | News | Regulation & Standards | 31 Oct 2011

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Opening Cross: Fixated on Fixed Income as MiFID Expands Reach

The European Commission last week released proposals for the second iteration of its Markets in Financial Instruments Directive, which shook up equities trading in Europe, prompted the creation of new  multilateral trading facilities, and caused trading...

Inside Market Data | Opinion | Regulation & Standards | 24 Oct 2011

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Participants and Exchanges React to Mifid II

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 the new rules, citing increased transparency and a...

Buy-Side Technology | Analysis | Regulation & Standards | 21 Oct 2011

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Open Platform: Mifid and Mifir—A Double Wave of Change

The Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (Mifid) came into force in November 2007 at a time of “lighter-touch” approaches by market regulators, when the idea of principles-based regulation seemed to be more appropriate and of-its-time. Back...

Buy-Side Technology | Opinion | Regulation & Standards | 20 Oct 2011

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Opening Cross: Rules of Engagement

This Tuesday, Sept. 27, Inside Market Data—along with stablemate Inside Reference Data—will host the European Financial Information Summit in London, and annual gathering of some of the sharpest minds in market data to address issues affecting the...

Inside Market Data | Opinion | Events | 26 Sep 2011

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Financial Tech Talk: High-Frequency Trading Under Mifid II

Welcome to the inagural episode of Financial Tech Talk, a regular audio commentary segment on Wall Street trends and technology from industry insiders. In our first episode, Sell-Side Technology sits down with Hirander Misra, formerly of Algo Technologies...

Sell-Side Technology | Interview | Regulation & Standards | 05 Aug 2011 | audio

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