Enhancing competitiveness and transparency / MiFIR Review
Enhancing competitiveness and transparency / MiFIR Review
Context
Reviewing the MiFIR regulation in order to tackle the main transparency and level playing field issues in the securities trading area and enhance the competitiveness of EU capital markets at the international level is a key component of the CMU action plan published in September 2020.
A major objective of the amended MiFIR regulation adopted in 2023 is the introduction of an EU-wide consolidated tape (CT), which will be implemented in a phased way starting with the bond CT, followed by the equity and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) CTs and the derivatives CTs. A ban on payment for order flow (PFOF) practices in the EU will also be implemented, except in countries where this practice is already significantly used, with an objective to achieve a total ban in the EU by June 2026.
The MiFIR review includes a number of other measures to enhance the transparency and structure of EU securities markets. These measures concern the waivers and dark trading caps for equity and ETF transactions, deferrals for non-equity instruments, the rules applying to systematic internaliser (SI) platforms and share and derivative trading obligations (STO and DTO).
The MiFIR review moreover aims to increase the competitiveness of EU financial markets by removing the open access obligation for exchange traded derivatives (in order to improve legal certainty and suppress disincentives for exchanges to create innovative financial products), by adjusting the scope of the EU share and derivative trading obligations and aligning trading and clearing obligations for derivatives.
Eurofi documents
Extracted from the main Eurofi publications (Regulatory Updates, Views Magazines and Conference Summaries)
Eurofi policy note
Enhancing transparency in EU securities markets - April 2020
Panel discussion summaries
Enhancing the competitiveness of EU capital markets - Ghent High Level Seminar - February 2024
Consolidated Tape proposals - Santiago de Compostela Financial Forum - September 2023
EU capital market competitiveness and integration - Stockholm High Level Seminar - April 2023
MIFIR review: pending questions - Stockholm High Level Seminar - April 2023
MiFIR Review: key pending issues and expected impacts - Prague Financial Forum - September 2022
MiFID II / MiFIR review priorities - Paris High Level Seminar - February 2022
Consolidated Tape: prospects for delivery - Paris High Level Seminar - February 2022
EU consolidated tape: next steps - Ljubljana Financial Forum - September 2021
EU Consolidated Tape and European Single Point of Access - Lisbon Virtual Seminar - April 2021
Eurofi Views Magazine chapters
Attractiveness of EU capital markets for issuers and investors - September 2024 new
Competitiveness of EU capital markets - February 2024
Eva Wimmer - Federal Ministry of Finance, Germany | Francesco Ceccato - Barclays Europe | Nick Dutton - Cboe Europe | Virginie Saade - Citadel
Securities trading: market structure and transparency evolutions - September 2023
Carlo Comporti - Commissione Nazionale per le Società e la Borsa (CONSOB) | Hanzo Van Beusekom - Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets | Carl Magnus Magnusson - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) | Beatriz Alonso-Majagranzas - SIX Group
Consolidated Tape proposals - September 2023
Hanzo Van Beusekom - Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets | Niels Brab - Deutsche Börse Group | Nicholas Bean - Bloomberg Trading Facility BV
Verena Ross - European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) | Prof. Danuta Hübner - European Parliament | Carlo Comporti - Commissione Nazionale per le Società e la Borsa (CONSOB) | Niels Brab - Deutsche Börse Group | James McKeone - Nasdaq | Nicholas Bean - Bloomberg Trading Facility BV
EU capital market competitiveness and integration - April 2023
Harald Waiglein - Federal Ministry of Finance, Austria | Natasha Cazenave - European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) | Francesco Ceccato - Barclays Europe | Stéphane Boujnah - Euronext | Jan Boomars - Optiver
Hanzo Van Beusekom - Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM) | Carlo Comporti - Commissioner – Commissione Nazionale per le Società e la Borsa | Rodrigo Buenaventura - Spanish Securities and Exchange Commission | Eva Wimmer - Federal Ministry of Finance, Germany | Pierre Chabrol - Ministry of the Economy, Finance and Industrial and Digital Sovereignty of France | Niels Brab - Deutsche Börse Group | Nicholas Bean - Bloomberg Trading Facility BV | Stephen Berger - Citadel | James Hilton - Credit Suisse
MiFID II / MiFIR review priorities - February 2022
Robert Ophèle - Autorité des Marchés Financiers | Markus Ferber - European Parliament | Martina Tambucci - Commissione Nazionale per le Società e la Borsa | Claudia Gonzalez Cabanillas - JP Morgan | Heath Tarbert - Citadel Securities
Consolidated tape: prospects for delivery - February 2022
Hanzo van Beusekom - Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets | Rodrigo Buenaventura - Spanish Securities and Exchange Commission | Nicholas Bean - Bloomberg Trading Facility BV | Quentin van Lidth - BNP Paribas Global Markets | James McKeone - Nasdaq | Gerben Everts - European Investors’ Association
EU consolidated tape: next steps - September 2021
Robert Ophèle - Autorité des Marchés Financiers | Hanzo van Beusekom - Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets | Carmine Di Noia - Commissione Nazionale per le Società e la Borsa | Niels Brab - Deutsche Börse Group | Nicholas Bean - Bloomberg Trading Facility BV | Eric Boess - Allianz Global Investors | Kay Swinburne - KPMG LLP | Stephen Berger - Citadel
Consolidated tape and single access point - April 2021
Hanzo van Beuzekom - Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets | Verena Ross - European Securities and Markets Authority | Natasha Cazenave - Autorité des Marchés Financiers | Stephen Berger - Citadel | Nicholas Bean - Bloomberg | Daniel Mayston - BlackRock | Nicolas Rivard - Euronext