MiFID II - Key Challenges for Equity and Fixed Income Markets

London Financial Studies

Short course

In London

£ 4001-5000

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Description

  • Type

    Short course

  • Level

    Intermediate

  • Methodology

    Inhouse

  • Location

    London

  • Duration

    1 Day

  • Start date

    Different dates available

This one-day course will help you understand, analyze, and identify the key practical challenges and solutions related to MiFID II in both equities and fixed income markets. The impact of this European regulation on North American firms will be examined, as well as being compared and contrasted to Dodd-Frank. We will explore all the major features of the regulation and all the intended, and unintended consequences of this legislation for both buy-side and sell-side firms.

Case studies and workshops will be applied to aid a more detailed understanding of the impact of the legislation.

Facilities

Location

Start date

London
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34 Curlew Street, se12nd

Start date

Different dates availableEnrolment now open

About this course

- Understand the primary goals of MiFID II
- Examine the impact for North American financial firms and compare with Dodd-Frank
- Get an overview of the main elements required by the regulation
- Analyze the consequences of the directive for the financial community
- Gain familiarity with the key terminology from the legislation
- Focus on the impact to trading particularly around pre- and post-trade transparency
- Find the answers to your questions and concerns about MiFID

- Traders and execution desks
- Sales and Sales-traders
- Portfolio managers
- Risk managers
- Quants/Financial engineers
- Technology project owners
- Brokers and vendors
- Business managers
- Compliance officers

A basic understanding of capital markets and securities trading.

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2016

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Subjects

  • MIFID
  • Regulators
  • Regulations
  • Risk
  • Compliance
  • Fintech
  • Mifir
  • Derivatives
  • Trade
  • Trading
  • Stress Testing

Teachers and trainers (1)

Jamie Walton

Jamie Walton

Teacher

Dr Jamie Walton has over 18 years of experience as a quant in financial markets. For the last 10 years, he was the head FX quant at Morgan Stanley, where he built the team of FX electronic trading quants. In recent years, Dr Walton has presented at conferences and written articles on electronic trading, as well as providing independent consultancy in quantitative finance. Dr Walton is also an Honorary Research Fellow at UCL, where he lectures in Financial Mathematics as part of the Masters Financial Mathematics Programme.

Course programme

MiFID II - Fundamentals
  • Comparison with MiFID I
  • Start dates - relevant dates for compliance and data submission
  • Scope and extraterritoriality
  • What about Brexit? Passporting and the single market
  • Buy-side vs. sell-side - extension of regulations to asset managers
  • Equities vs. Fixed Income - the move to exchange-like facilities
  • Key terms for MiFID II - a guide through all the acronyms
Pre-trade Transparency
  • Liquid instruments - changing definitions, large in scale, ESMA’s role
  • Systematic Internalizers - when do you fall under this definition? What is your role?
  • Venues: RMs, MTFs, OTFs and BCNs
Best Execution
  • What does this mean in fixed income markets?
  • Transaction cost analysis
  • Post-trade Transparency
  • Block sizes and reporting rules
  • APAs and the availability of post-trade data
Workshop: The impact of transparency rules on trading
Regulations for Execution
  • Limits on Dark Pool trading
  • Algorithmic trading
  • Direct Electronic Access
  • Derivatives trading, clearing and compression
High-frequency Trading
  • Authorization and limits
  • Stress testing, clock synch
Surveillance
  • Market monitoring, manipulation and abuse
  • Record keeping and recording of conversations
Further aspects of MiFID II
  • Research Unbundling
  • Related Regulations: GDPR and MAD II
Case Studies: How MiFID will affect financial firms globally
Review and Conclusions

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MiFID II - Key Challenges for Equity and Fixed Income Markets

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