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EU markets directive to reshape global alternatives

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUL 2017
Half of alternative asset managers with offices outside the European Union will apply the EU's Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) policies globally - for those firms delegating portfolio management to a third country, this figure ...

May the force's not with her

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUN 2017
... prospects are further enhanced by the increased prospect of a "soft Brexit" - where the country would remain in the European Union's (EU) single market and customs union. As Bloomberg put it, "May wouldn't have enough votes in Parliament to support her ...

Liquidnet acquires global tech firm

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAY 2017
Institutional dark pool network Liquidnet is preparing for changes to European Union markets regulation through the acquisition of a global provider of equity analytics. OTAS Technologies, established in 2011, currently provides equity market analytics ...

No 'Plan B' for Brexit "twist and turns"

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAY 2017
... are also "conditioned on the assumptions that the adjustment to the United Kingdom's new relationship with the European Union is smooth". It better be for the BOE has reportedly no "Plan B" for Brexit. Perhaps Gov Carney hasn't heard of Mr. Murphy's ...

Decidedly undecided

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 APR 2017
... other hand, a Le Pen victory would introduce fresh uncertainty, not only for France but on the Eurozone and the European Union as a whole - i.e., Frexit and its contagion effects. Volatility here come. Just as Napoleon Bonaparte quipped, "The most dangerous ...

Two-year road to Brexit begins

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAR 2017
... the promise she made in October last year, UK prime minister Theresa May invoked Article 50 of the Treaty of the European Union formally setting in motion the two-year time limit for negotiations that will see the United Kingdom (UK) withdraw from the ...

Buying American

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 FEB 2017
... at December, the US remains in deficit relative to its major trading partners: China (US$27.8 billion deficit); European Union (US$12.3 billion deficit); Japan (US$6.5 billion deficit); Mexico (US$4.4 billion deficit) and Canada (US$2.2 billion defic ...

Three for three

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2017
... commodity-exporting economies, particularly China; the consequences stemming from the United Kingdom's vote to leave the European Union (EU) and their effects; prospects regarding the European debt problem, including the financial sector; and geopolitical ...

No deal is better than bad deal on Brexit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JAN 2017
"Not partial membership of the European Union, associate membership of the European Union, or anything that leaves us half-in, half-out. We do not seek to adopt a model already enjoyed by other countries. We do not seek to hold on to bits of membership ...

The year that was and the year that will be

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 DEC 2016
... more by rising oil prices). Brexit It remains a major risk as negotiations between Britain and the rest of the European Union continues. One that could be complicated (or helped) by changes in government policy dynamics - depending on the results of ...