EPTA News
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FIA EPTA response to the LSE consultation on market structure and trading hours
FIA EPTA members consider that, generally speaking, the longer hours in Europe do not seem to provide a benefit to market liquidity and observe that the shorter hours in, for example, the U.S. main trading session do not hamper market liquidity.
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FIA EPTA response to the ESMA consultation on commercial terms for providing clearing services under EMIR (FRANDT)
FIA EPTA members are supportive of the overarching objective of the FRANDT concept which is to increase access to client clearing services by ensuring that clearing members provide clearing services on fair, reasonable, non-discriminatory, and transparent terms.
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FIA European Principal Traders Association responds to the ESMA consultation on MAR Review
FIA EPTA members support high standards of market integrity and agree with ESMA’s approach in its consultation on the Review of MAR. FIA EPTA members would welcome strengthening the EU regulatory framework for the Spot FX markets but note the need to take into account the specific product and market structure characteristics of Spot FX, including the global nature of the Spot FX markets.
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FIA EPTA response to the ESMA Consultation on the Cost of Market Data and the Consolidated Tape
FIA EPTA agrees with ESMA’s assessment that user data fees are high and have increased over the past years. We also agree that new fees have been added and that market data policies and agreements are increasingly complex.
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FIA EPTA members elect new executive committee
FIA EPTA’s members have elected a new Executive Committee as the governing body of the industry organisation, supporting its chairman, Mark Spanbroek, and Secretary General, Piebe Teeboom.
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FIA EPTA response to the German Ministry of Finance Consultation on MiFID II/MiFIR
FIA EPTA welcomes the opportunity to respond to the consultation by the German Ministry of Finance on the implementation experiences of MiFID II in its first year of its application.
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Europe's leading trading firms respond to political agreement on a new prudential regime for investment firms
Piebe Teeboom, Secretary-General of FIA EPTA, the association representing the leading principal trading firms in Europe, welcomed yesterday’s political agreement between the European Parliament and the Council on the Investment Firm Review (IFR/IFD) -- but stressed the importance of implementing the new regime in a proportionate way for Europe’s capital markets to be able to further develop and grow.
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FIA EPTA comments on ESMA’s Call for Evidence on Periodic Auctions
FIA EPTA is agnostic about the advent of periodic auction systems as such, and we welcome any form of meaningful market model innovation that is able to compete on its own merits with other market models.
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CMU and the Investment Firm Review: strengthening European capital markets through proportionality
Hands up if you want up-and-coming European companies to have sufficient access to the money they need to grow and to drive prosperity across the EU? It’s a no brainer – and one of the reasons why European politicians and regulators are keen to push forward the Capital Markets Union.
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FIA EPTA comments on ESMA Consultation Paper in relation to tick sizes for third-country instruments
FIA EPTA agrees with ESMA’s suggestion to recalibrate the tick-size regime for instruments where the main pool of liquidity is located outside the EU (third country instruments).
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