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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 / 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 / August 24, 2011 10:53 am
Ever since its EU-wide implementation in November 2007, the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) has significantly modified the structure and environment of secondary market equity trading across Europe. As the Nordic economies continue to lead on the global stage, [...]
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Dan Mellins-Cohen / May 31, 2011 4:07 pm
Florian Miciu is the CTO at Chi-X Europe, putting him right on the cutting edge of the world of trading technology, particularly when it comes to making sure that the all-important ‘back-end’ is serving the needs of those on the [...]