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It has been a while since the CESR guidelines on “Understanding the definition of advice under MiFID” were published. To be precise, 13 years have passed since CESR, ESMA’s predecessor, clarified and ...
Author(s): Marius Raetz, Alicia Hildner
In the heated discussion around the ban on payment for order flow, the proposal on the Retail Investment Package (the Proposal), adopted on 24 May 2023, seems to have somewhat fallen between the crack...
Author(s): Marius Raetz, Falko Glasow, Alicia Hildner, Alexander Glos
In April 2022, in the response to its consultation on regulatory approach to, among other things, distributed ledger technology (DLT) in financial markets, HM Treasury (HMT) confirmed that it would de...
Author(s): Claire Harrop, Claudia Rugue
The Financial Markets Standards Board (FMSB) believes so. Or at least the recent FMSB report indicates that there are common broad behaviours that feature in market misconduct over time and across jur...
Author(s): Simon Orton, Thomas Clark, Sharon Grennan
Wholesale Markets Review: an enhanced, tailor-made regime for UK markets
Memorandum of understanding on financial services: A stepping stone to ensuring equivalence?
A framework for synthetic STS securitisation - A snapshot of recent developments
The SFC narrows the proposed scope of the OTC derivatives licensing regime
Structured finance and COVID-19: Issues you should consider
Regulatory supervisory outlook 2020
The New EU Securitisation Regulation
MiFID 2 - impact on corporates and other entities who use financial markets
