This Overview provides a guide to the Financial Services content within the Trading securities subtopic, with links to the appropriate materials.
‘Securities’ include:
shares
depository receipts
bonds
notes
debentures
certificates of deposit
warrants, and
other types of transferable instruments
The recast Markets in Financial Instruments Directive 2014/65/EU (OJ L 173/349) (EU MiFID II) and the Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (EU) 600/2014 (OJ L 173/148) (EU MiFIR) (together the EU MiFID II framework) entered into force on 2 July 2014. The majority of the requirements of the MiFID II framework have effect from 3 January 2018.
The MiFID II framework contains requirements which are relevant to many aspects of securities trading, including:
market structure
access to market infrastructures
microstructural issues such as:
algorithmic trading
direct electronic access to trading venues
requirements for general clearing members of clearing houses or central counterparties (CCPs)
trading venues' systems and circuit breakers
tick size, and
market-making, as well as
pre-and post-transaction transparency and transaction
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