Category : Mifid II

Forex Licensing Mifid II Uncategorized

Natallia Talks Regulatory Reporting RTS27/RT28 with Finance Feeds in London

Natallia Hunik sits down with Andrew Saks McLeod in London to talk about regulatory reporting in EU

Natallia sits down with Andrew Saks McLeod in London to discuss how FX regulatory landscape is reshaping with implementation of Mifid 2.
The following benefits of RTS27/28 for the brokers are discussed :

– Ability for the retail investors to verify if their broker practices what they preach. Many brokers claim they are sending the flow to the market, whereas in reality they are serving as a counterparty to those trades as demonstrated by their RTS27/28 reports

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Forex Broker Forex Licensing Mifid II Uncategorized

RTS27 & RTS28 reports are now available to EU Traders

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Forex Broker Forex Licensing FX Liquidity Mifid II Uncategorized

Prime of Prime Brokerage – How to Structure Your Brokerage?

Trade execution in OTC derivatives is a burning issue among regulators and clients, as is how to source genuine liquidity. In an interview with Andrew Saks-McLeod, founder and CEO of Finance Feeds, we go into detail on how to make sure this is done to your advantage, and done properly.

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Forex Licensing Mifid II STP

How to Find Your Broker in UK FCA Register?

In a world of constantly evolving regulations, licensing and compliance is of paramount importance. Many traders and brokers read and hear about regulation everywhere, but even with all of this awareness, I still often times come across corporate clients and institutional traders who are failing to conduct counterparty due diligence.

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LEI number Mifid II

Where to get LEI number and how much does it cost?

Legal Entity Identifier

As the global push for greater transparency in financial markets continues to march around the world, top tier regulators are now requiring all entities engaged in trading financial markets to report their LEI (Legal Entity Identifier) number to regulatory repositories.

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Mifid II Reporting

Mifid II – New Reporting Structure

This article was written in cooperation with Ron Finberg, Head of Business Development at Cappitech

MiFID II has been the focal point of many discussions in the European financial world recently. We have previously focused our attention on several of the main aspects of this upcoming regulation, such as Best Execution PolicyLEI Numbers and Counterparty Disclosure.

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FX Liquidity Mifid II

MifidII and Liquidity Management Guidelines

FX liquidity management - Mifid2
Best execution policy under MiFID adopts a multi-faceted approach that addresses, amongst other things, quality of execution, trading conditions extended to clients and the counterparty selection process. It also provides directions and guidelines on how best execution can be achieved.
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Mifid II

Why Retail FX brokers should care about upcoming Mifid II changes?

Mifid II changes for FX

MiFID II, the “Markets in Financial Instruments Directive”, is legislation that is set to be implemented across the European Union on January 3rd, 2018. As this due date approaches, many market participants are scrambling to implement changes to hopefully comply with the new rules. Some, on the other hand, prefer to procrastinate as long as possible in the hope of getting further clarity on this pending regulation.

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Mifid II

What is LEI number under Mifid II?

Legal Entity Identifier
Welcome to a financial world, full of mysterious acronyms. LEI, CASS, ECP, EMIR, MiFIR, MTF, OTF… This industry just loves acronyms and MiFID II just gave us a whole lot of new ones to work with.

One that I have started hearing more often is the LEI number and it relates directly to the requirements embedded in the upcoming MiFID II directive. The following article will hopefully give answers to these much-asked questions, what is an LEI? Who needs one? Why it is required? How do I get one?

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