Richard Gissing takes part in Financial News MiFID focus group discussion
In early summer a group of industry luminaries gathered in a central London hotel to discuss MiFID and the impact it’s likely to have on the trading environment in the future.
Co-sponsored by Gissing Software and Capco, the round table covered a variety of topics including:
- Assessing the impact of MiFID
- Identifying the beneficiaries of the directive
- Will liquidity be fragmented
- Exchanges under pressure
- Achieving best execution in the post-MiFID market
- Forecasting trends in trading costs.
Those who took part were:
Back row, left to right:
- Adam Kinsey – director of regulation, London Stock Exchange
- Timothy Spangler – partner, Berwin Leighton Paisner
- Kevin Bourne – managing director and head of execution trading, HSBC
- Steve Webb – partner, Capco
- Ben Wright – editor of business publishing, Financial News – chair
Front row, left to right:
- Patricia Lynch – market relations and sales director, Virt-X
- Richard Gissing – founder and CTO, Gissing Software
- Sheila Nicoll – deputy chief executive, Investment Management Association
Financial News recorded and transcribed the session and has published a supplement which covers all the topics listed above. Financial News have kindly made a supply of these available to us; if you’d like your own copy please complete this web form. Tell us how many copies you’d like (up to 10) and we’ll put them in the post to you.
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