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		<title>MarketAxess-ITG Partnership</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to Domowitz, ITG was spurred by calls from global clients to expand its asset class coverage. The firm began talking to MarketAxess &#8220;based on this perceived demand for a fixed-income product and the notion that it might be able to be supplied very quickly to that client base,&#8221; he said. Pointing to the Markets [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mifidirective.com/?p=263</link>
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		<title>Czech fin market sees MiFID, BCPP sale, 2nd bourse in 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID), the Prague Stock Exchange (BCPP) sale to the Vienna Stock Exchange and the RM-System becoming a stock exchange were the main events on the domestic financial market last year. 
The Vienna Stock Exchange bought the BCPP for an estimated Kc4.5bn. The BCPP was owned by banking and non-banking brokers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mifidirective.com/?p=267</link>
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		<title>Summary of CTK Business News in English</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Prague &#8211; Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID), the Prague Stock Exchange (BCPP) sale to the Vienna Stock Exchange and the RM-System becoming a stock exchange were the main events on the domestic financial market last year.
Czech state budget posted a deficit of Kc19.4bn last year, which is the best result since 1997, the Finance [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mifidirective.com/?p=265</link>
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		<title>Introducing UWCPass: A Digital Financial Passport Service</title>
		<description><![CDATA[United World Capital, Ltd. is a privately owned company with solid investors around the world. It is a registered CIF (Cyprus Investment Firm) under the registration number 230122 and licensed by CySEC (Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission) under the license number 093/08 in accordance with new MiFID (Markets in Financial Instruments Directive) &#8211; a European [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mifidirective.com/?p=269</link>
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		<title>Round peg, Square Mile</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mid-cap stock exchange Plus is in a strong position to compete says FD Nemone Wynn-Evans, but needs to deseat the LSE from pre-eminence, writes Rules have been put in place to facilitate competition. Players are piling into the market and, at the same time, credit lines to businesses of all kinds are all but totally [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mifidirective.com/?p=271</link>
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		<title>U.K. Buy Side Wants Consolidated Tape, Routing Rule</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Europe needs a consolidated tape, according to the U.K.&#8217;s Investment Management Association (IMA), which has issued a set of recommendations intended to improve transparency in the continent&#8217;s equities market. The buy-side trade group says its members also want order-routing rules similar to Regulation National Market System in the U.S.
&#8220;Counterparty risk and settlement certainty dominate the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mifidirective.com/?p=279</link>
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		<title>Instinet Europe Releases Results of MiFID Best Execution Policy Review for August &#8211; October 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Instinet Incorporated, a global leader in electronic trading and agency-only brokerage services, today announced that its European agency brokerage subsidiary, Instinet Europe, has published the key findings of its Best Execution Policy Review, conducted in accordance with MiFID regulations. The review covers Instinet Europe&#8217;s trading performance from 1 August 2008 through to 31 October 2008 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mifidirective.com/?p=318</link>
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		<title>Xtrakter: TRAX to provide regulatory reporting for exchange-traded derivatives</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LONDON, UK &#8212; Xtrakter, the market utility, is pleased to announce that TRAX will facilitate the regulatory reporting of exchange traded derivatives (ETD) and other complex derivatives in accordance with the requirements of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) in Q1 09.
The Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR) requires firms to regulatory report derivatives [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mifidirective.com/?p=285</link>
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		<title>Trax to provide regulatory reporting for exchange-traded derivatives</title>
		<description><![CDATA[HIGHLIGHT: Xtrakter, a market utility acquired by Euroclear last month from the International Capital Market Association, has announced that its Trax trade matching and regulatory reporting system will facilitate the reporting of exchange-traded derivatives and other complex derivatives in accordance with the requirements of the European Union&#8217;s Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) starting in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mifidirective.com/?p=283</link>
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		<title>RDR feedback statement aims to put consumers first</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Spare a thought, as you trudge through the 220 page epic that is the retail distribution review (RDR) feedback statement, for the people who had to write it.
The team led by Amanda Bowe (pictured), head of the RDR, had the unenviable task of drawing together 888 responses to the original discussion paper and producing a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mifidirective.com/?p=287</link>
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