Tag: Marcus Ferber
European Parliament grudgingly approves MiFID II delay
As expected, the European Parliament yesterday approved the inaptly-titled MiFID II “quick fix”, ratifying the one year delay in its application date. The ECON committee used the opportunity to vote for the following specific amendments: a particular transparency regime for packaged transactions, a clarification of the own account exemption and the exemption of securities financing […]
EP signals approval of MiFID 2 delay
The European Parliament’s Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) has published two draft reports on the Commission’s proposals to postpone the application date of MiFID II, MiFIR, MAR and the CSDR. Both drafts state that the Parliament intends to adopt the proposals at first reading. The reports are accompanied by an explanatory statement by […]