The issue of how investment research should be paid for by investors is controversial, long-standing and seemingly perennially the subject of legislative iterations, failure and unintended consequence ...

The issue of how firms should pay for investment research continues to be a controversial topic in the financial markets. The U.S. has maintained the approach it adopted before the mid-2000s, which is ...

The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has revised some of its proposals on implementation of the second Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II), issuing its final rules and guidance ...

New research from the University of Bath shows the European Union’s MiFID II financial market reforms inadvertently reduced research activity and adversely affected liquidity in London’s main stock ...

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The second Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) is fast becoming the dominant black hole of 2017, and nothing can escape it. Irrespective of where you are based or where you sit in ...

Wall Street is headed for a fresh regulatory battle over how clients pay for investment research when a hard-fought reprieve from Europe’s tough MiFID II rules expires next month. American securities ...

FRANKFURT/LONDON, Oct 18 (Reuters) - A major German banking lobby said on Wednesday new European regulations aimed at protecting consumers were too costly and too invasive. The European Union rules, ...

The House on Tuesday passed a bill to codify now-expired guidance from the Securities and Exchange Commission allowing U.S. broker-dealers to receive separate payments for research without being ...

The difference between a millisecond and a nanosecond might be indistinguishable to the human eye, but the gap between a thousandth and a billionth of a second could cost the industry loads more money ...