Regulation

FSA Fall Short on Investor Protection — WSJ

The FSA’s principle-based approach to regulation has won it a lot of favorable attention in the US. Leave it to the Wall Street Journal to weigh in with criticism for its failure to protect individual shareholders in the UK. The Journal sees the FSA as trying to protect the London marketplace rather than the individual…

Fund managers wake up to MiFID and SCREAMMMMM

After three years of anticipation, we’re now just 93 days away from 1st November and the implementation of MiFID.   Now you would think that after 1,217 days of thinking about MiFID’s implications and implementation, that most folks would be ready … pah! Just last week SunGard’s survey (13 page pdf), taken at TradeTech conferences and…

IFR publish ‘Who’s Ready for MiFID’?

from PJ Di Giammarino of JWG-IT: The Financial Serivces industry think-tank Thomson IFR announce the publication of ‘Who’s ready for MiFID?’ by PJ Di Giammarino, CEO, JWG-IT Think-Tank. The IFR Market Intelligence report is the first comprehensive healthcheck of EU capital markets’ new capabilities that need to be deployed in less than 50 workdays. The…

IFR publish ‘Who’s Ready for MiFID’?

from PJ Di Giammarino of JWG-IT: The Financial Serivces industry think-tank Thomson IFR announce the publication of ‘Who’s ready for MiFID?’ by PJ Di Giammarino, CEO, JWG-IT Think-Tank. The IFR Market Intelligence report is the first comprehensive healthcheck of EU capital markets’ new capabilities that need to be deployed in less than 50 workdays. The…

IFR publish ‘Who’s Ready for MiFID’?

from PJ Di Giammarino of JWG-IT: The Financial Serivces industry think-tank Thomson IFR announce the publication of ‘Who’s ready for MiFID?’ by PJ Di Giammarino, CEO, JWG-IT Think-Tank. The IFR Market Intelligence report is the first comprehensive healthcheck of EU capital markets’ new capabilities that need to be deployed in less than 50 workdays. The…

IFR publish ‘Who’s Ready for MiFID’?

from PJ Di Giammarino of JWG-IT: The Financial Serivces industry think-tank Thomson IFR announce the publication of ‘Who’s ready for MiFID?’ by PJ Di Giammarino, CEO, JWG-IT Think-Tank. The IFR Market Intelligence report is the first comprehensive healthcheck of EU capital markets’ new capabilities that need to be deployed in less than 50 workdays. The…

IFR publish ‘Who’s Ready for MiFID’?

from PJ Di Giammarino of JWG-IT: The Financial Serivces industry think-tank Thomson IFR announce the publication of ‘Who’s ready for MiFID?’ by PJ Di Giammarino, CEO, JWG-IT Think-Tank. The IFR Market Intelligence report is the first comprehensive healthcheck of EU capital markets’ new capabilities that need to be deployed in less than 50 workdays. The…