Events

After months of discussions, the European Commission officially released the draft level 1 text of the new Market in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) and Regulation (MiFIR) on October 20th.

"Investment banks can save funding costs by running synthetic exchange traded funds that use derivatives to track indices, according to the BIS.

As the flagship event in Europe for CFA Institute, the annual European Investment Conference brings together noted researchers, speakers, writers, investment professionals, academics, and experts to examine these unique regional issues and bring you up to speed on a broad range of global investment topics.

The Task Force on commodities price formation held its third meeting on market structure issues of raw materials and base metals physical and derivatives markets, and in particular for copper, aluminium and iron ore.

After a very successful start last month, this second meeting of the ECMI-CEPS task force on commodities price formation focused on energy commodities.

Defining 'complexity’ for retail financial products should be done with reference to the ability of investors to understand their risk-return patte

The presentation of the external report ‘An Investigation into Stewardship’ gathered representatives from the capital markets, banks, accountancy organisations and international law firms.

The 2011 ECMI Annual Conference brought together the best of academia, industry and policy making, to discuss the challenges for global asset.

In this introductory meeting, participants will discuss the guidelines and the scope of the Task Force, and discuss trading practices, financialisation, competition and market structure in energy commodities markets, specifically on crude oil and liquified natural gas.