FIA EPTA is appreciative of the opportunity to provide an industry review and analysis of the FCA Occasional Paper No. 50, “Quantifying the High-Frequency Trading ‘Arms Race’: A new methodology and estimates” by Matteo Aquilina, Eric Budish and Peter O’Neill (“the Occasional Paper”).
CONTINUE READINGFIA EPTA members are pleased to provide feedback to ESMA on its draft technical standards on the provision of investment services and activities in the Union by third-country firms under MiFID II and MiFIR as amended by the Investment Firm Regulation (IFR).
CONTINUE READINGFIA EPTA researched in April 2020 on the impact of bans on short-selling in European equities indexes in March 2020 during the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak.
CONTINUE READINGFIA EPTA contacted the Executive Board of BaFin to register our concern regarding the safeguarding of market liquidity and orderly price formation on German and European exchanges.
CONTINUE READINGFIA EPTA appreciates the opportunity to respond and feed into the European Commission’s consultation on improving resilience against cyberattacks for the financial services sector.
CONTINUE READINGFIA EPTA supports transparent, robust and safe markets with a level playing field and appropriate regulation for market participants. We consistently support the aim of the market structure reforms laid out in MiFID II/MiFIR.
CONTINUE READINGFIA EPTA welcomes the opportunity to respond to the ESMA consultation on the MiFIR pre-trade transparency regime for systematic internalisers (SI) active in non-equity instruments.
CONTINUE READINGPrincipal Trading Firms are relatively small, non-complex firms with flat organization structures. Importantly, our members trade for own account and risk only, and do not hold or manage client assets or money or take deposits.
CONTINUE READINGFIA EPTA members consider that, generally speaking, the longer hours in Europe do not seem to provide a benefit to market liquidity and observe that the shorter hours in, for example, the U.S. main trading session do not hamper market liquidity.
CONTINUE READINGFIA EPTA members are supportive of the overarching objective of the FRANDT concept which is to increase access to client clearing services by ensuring that clearing members provide clearing services on fair, reasonable, non-discriminatory, and transparent terms.
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