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Dan Mellins-Cohen / February 17, 2012 4:50 pm
As literally everyone who deals with derivatives will know by now is that the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) makes no sense grammatically, but has nonetheless been agreed by the all-seeing druids of the European Commission. The intentions seem laudable [...]
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Dan Mellins-Cohen / February 7, 2012 3:22 pm
Doubts have been cast over the future of a Tobin tax on Europe’s financial markets after British prime minister David Cameron vetoed an EU treaty that would have included a financial transaction tax. The move has widely been welcomed by [...]
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Dan Mellins-Cohen / November 3, 2011 12:41 pm
Landmines and automated mice are not necessarily the first things to spring to mind when contemplating the landscape of global trading – but they were part of the picture painted during the opening address at the TradeTech Architecture event held [...]
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Dan Mellins-Cohen / October 28, 2011 4:52 pm
We are very excited to bring you this last post before the weekend, exclusive to the TradeTech Blog, written by David Hughes, Director of ATMonitor, the buy-side only trading intelligence service… The financial markets generally believe that the crisis in [...]
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Dan Mellins-Cohen / October 26, 2011 10:02 am
Just back from a two week trip around Asia and Australia that took in dark pool seminars in Hong Kong and Singapore and attendance at the FPL conference in Sydney. In my absence, it seems like the Eurocrats in Brussels [...]
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Dan Mellins-Cohen / October 21, 2011 4:42 pm
It’s been two years in the making, with speculation, hearsay, leaks and lobbying-a-plenty, but finally the MiFID II proposal has now been published by the European Commission. What a shame, then, that its arrival has been met more with a [...]
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Dan Mellins-Cohen / October 19, 2011 1:42 pm
Despite being one of the US market’s fastest-growing financial products in recent decades, the exchange-traded fund (ETF) has so far failed to win over European traders to quite the same extent. But many experts still see believe the continent is [...]
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Dan Mellins-Cohen / October 10, 2011 5:08 pm
EU Sees Coordinated Action on Bank Capital Business Week Shares up on euro bank plan hopes BBC High-street banks attacked over account switching policy The Independent Investment banks need ethics as well as a desire to make money The Telegraph [...]
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Dan Mellins-Cohen / October 5, 2011 9:00 am
With the ‘big reveal’ of MiFID II imminent, firms that make use of HFT are preparing to make an aggressive push into the European options markets thanks to the new trading platforms the regulation will create, according to a new [...]
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Dan Mellins-Cohen / September 23, 2011 11:49 am
World stocks hit 14-month low 23 September, 2011 Reporting by Jeremy Gaunt, writing by Natsuko Waki World stocks hit a 14-month low on Friday as growing concerns about the impact on the banking sector from a possible Greek default eclipsed [...]