Listeners to The MiFID Podcast may be interested to note that Voices in Business recently launched a new podcast series entitled ?Progressing Financial Markets?, which challenges Industry Leaders to set out their vision for how Financial Markets companies can respond positively to uncertain times. The latest episode of the series features Michael Dawson, CEO of Promontory [...]

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Welcome to Episode 23 of The MiFID Podcast, brought to you by Voices in Business. This week, Phil and Mike speak with PJ Di Giammarino, CEO of JWG-IT, the independent think-tank which helps financial institutions define workable solutions to the challenges posed by EU regulatory change. PJ discusses some of the results and findings from the 150+ man-days [...]

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Welcome to Episode 22 of The MiFID Podcast, brought to you by Voices in Business. This week, Phil and Mike speak with Ken Price, CEO of Avox, about Client Classification under MiFID. Ken discusses some of the challenges the banks are likely to face under the new MiFID classification rules. Avox, a subsidiary of Deutsche Börse Group, validates, corrects, [...]

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Welcome to Episode 21 of The MiFID Podcast, brought to you by Voices in Business. This week, Phil and Mike speak with Chris Collins, Senior Manager at Deloitte, about the “regulatory speed bump” that is November 1st, 2007. Chris discusses some of the practicalities of implementing MiFID by November 1st, then goes on to discuss how [...]

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Welcome to Episode 20 of The MiFID Podcast, brought to you by Voices in Business. No guest this week, just Phil and Mike discussing the recently announced Open MiFID Alliance, a new pan-European alliance of some of the industry’s leading technology providers, formed to tackle the aggressive timescales of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID). Phil [...]

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Welcome to Episode 19 of The MiFID Podcast, produced by Voices in Business and sponsored by Sun Microsystems. This week, Phil and Mike speak with Laurent Useldinger, Chief Executive Officer of Ullink, a software and services provider specializing in trading solutions and associated connectivity infrastructure. Laurent gives his perspective on how Paris-based firms are preparing for [...]

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Welcome to Episode 18 of The MiFID Podcast, produced by Voices in Business and sponsored by Sun Microsystems. This week, Phil and Mike speak with Marcus Hooper, an independent Financial Industry Consultant who has recently written a very well received White Paper on the subject of Best Execution. Marcus shares his thoughts not just on Best Execution, [...]

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Welcome to Episode 17 of The MiFID Podcast, produced by Voices In Business and sponsored by Sun Microsystems. This week, Phil and Mike speak with Martin Gibbon, Head of Risk Practice, SAS Institute, about some of the key areas requiring attention from an information technology standpoint, as the MiFID deadline approaches. Martin talks about the innovative solutions SAS is putting [...]

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Welcome to Episode 16 of The MiFID Podcast, produced by Voices In Business and sponsored by Sun Microsystems. This week, Phil and Mike speak with Dan Frost, Operational Risk Officer at Morgan Stanley in London, about how the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive is likely to affect Institutional Buy-Side firms. Dan, who focuses on discretionary fund management technology [...]

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Welcome to Episode 15 of The MiFID Podcast, sponsored by Sun Microsystems. This week, Phil and Mike speak with Andrew Allwright, MiFID Programme Manager at Reuters about the value chain of market data under MiFID, data fragmentation versus data consolidation, best execution challenges, and some of the potential issues around asset classes other than equities. Reuters has a [...]

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