Category Archives: ESMA

May10

Best Execution – Again

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It would not be entirely fair to accuse the Regulator of banging-on endlessly about best execution. Until the publication of the Thematic Review in 2014 (TR 14/13), it had said nothing about it for years. And there was precious little …
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Feb9

ESMA clouds MAR with Guidelines

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As the forthcoming EU Market Abuse Regulation creeps up on us, we now have a further dollop of related regulation, this time in the form of draft ‘Guidelines’ from ESMA (Draft guidelines on the Market Abuse Regulation, ESMA/2016/162). We aren’t …
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Mar9

Umpteen Shades of Grey

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Use of dealing commission – acquisition of research The ability of regulators to cause a stir has never been in doubt. But seldom have they been so electrifying as with the recent developments over Use of Commission. With accusations flying …
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