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This week, EU Policymakers start finalising the review of the Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation. The European Parliament Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) Committee will engage in so-called trilogue negotiations with the Council and the Commission to reach a common position. One of the most contentious issues are changes concerning the consolidated tape (CT). The CT provides data ...
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European Investors has taken notice of recent public statements on the desirability of the pre-trade data consolidated tape. We believe increased transparency re. pricing and execution venues, will facilitate better, more efficient and fair price formation, best execution and do away with the artificial competitive advantage of Systemic Internalisers (SIs). European Investors has consistently ...
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European Investors cannot stress enough that inducements are the single most important barrier to realising the objectives of the European Capital Markets Union.   The regimes on inducements vary across the EU. What are inducements? It is a catch-all term. The common denominator is that the provider of investment services receives payments from parties other than his customer. For th...
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On 6 January 2023 European Investors-VEB (‘EI’) reacted to the Netherlands Governments’ public consultation on a draft Bill on the Virtual General Meeting of Shareholders in certain legal entities (‘the Bill’) legislated for under the Dutch Companies Act.  In essence, the Bill accommodates holding virtual only general meetings of shareholders. As a result, the shareholders’ meetings of Du...
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Author: Nico Binnendijk, European Investors-VEB. The Dutch market regularly attracts new brokers. While there are multiple investment firms vying for investors’ transactions, new players still see opportunities. Trade Republic and Scalable Capital are two German neo-brokers that recently became active in the Netherlands. They offer trading on alternative trading venues, where investors may...
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The Wirecard parliamentary inquiry commission presented its final report to Wolfgang Schäuble on 22 June 2022 in the German parliament. Interested investors can retrieve the report here Paul Koster, CEO of European Investors-VEB, said: “Not only does the report confirm our worst fears, but it exceeds them. On behalf of our investors we relentlessly followed the proceedings of the inquiry ...
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