MiFID welcomed by institutions
EUROPE - The majority of European institutional investors believed new regulations, due next month would increase transparency and integrating capital markets, according to research from Greenwich Associates.
The research revealed investors said the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID), scheduled to take effect on 1 November 2007, had a good chance of achieving the regulators’ stated goals of...
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