The data transparency obligations of Markets in Financial Instruments Direct II (MiFID II) are a drastic change from MiFID requirements and call on market participants to make significant modifications to data management, sourcing, publication and distribution. Faced with this level of change, only a handful of firms are completely prepared to meet the transparency requirement. Listen to a related webinar to find out more.
As rising geopolitical uncertainty prompts an intensification in the complexity and volume of global economic and financial sanctions, banks and financial institutions are faced with a daunting set of new compliance challenges. The risk of inadvertently engaging with sanctioned securities has never been higher and the penalties for doing so are harsh. Traditional sanctions screening...
2026 regulatory themes are converging around the theme of continuous evidence – data quality, control effectiveness, and operational resilience demonstrated through repeatable artefacts rather than narrative attestations. In Europe, that direction is most explicit in ESMA’s data platform and supervisory tooling agenda, alongside the ESAs’ DORA-related coordination and oversight planning – see ESMA 2026 Annual...
Now in its 15th year the TradingTech Summit London brings together the European trading technology capital markets industry and examines the latest changes and innovations in trading technology and explores how technology is being deployed to create an edge in sell side and buy side capital markets financial institutions.
The European corporate actions market could be the stage of some pretty heavy duty discussions regarding standards going forward, particularly with regards to the adoption of both XBRL tagging and ISO 20022 messaging. The region’s issuer community, for one, is not going to be easy to convince of the benefits of XBRL tags, given the...
