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FIX Trading Community Urges Regulatory Alignment in Response to FCA Consultations

The FIX Trading Community has called for significant changes to UK financial regulation in its formal response to FCA consultations on the UK consolidated tape and transaction reporting. Executive Director Jim Kaye emphasised that harmonising UK reporting rules more closely with EU standards would reduce complexity, lower the reporting burden, and improve the quality of market data. By addressing current...

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FIX Trading Community ramps up calls for regulatory changes on UK consolidated tape and transaction reporting

The FIX Trading Community has urged that changes should be made to UK financial regulation, following on from the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) consultations on the UK consolidated tape (CT) and transaction reporting.   Ahead of the introduction of the UK CT for equities, currently set to go live in 2027, the community emphasised concerns around post-trade transparency, outlined in six...

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FIX EMEA: European liquidity crisis more semantic than systematic

Industry discussions over recent years have frequently mourned the decline of the lit market and the lack of addressable liquidity in Europe and the UK. Yet panellists at the FIX EMEA Trading Conferences in London last week were optimistic about the state of the markets, and suggested that the issue is really a semantic one. Continue Reading…

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Without data you’re just another person with an opinion

With 2026 set to be a landmark year for market structure developments across Europe, regulators need to collaborate with market participants to ensure data can be used to boost competition and liquidity across European markets, asserted experts speaking at the FIX EMEA Trading Conference. Data is undoubtedly the beating heart of capital markets, and its importance in regulatory efforts, to drive market transparency and supervision was...

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Regulators start patrolling trading venue perimeter

During the FIX EMEA Trading regulatory panel, the Dutch AFM representative said resolving the ongoing trading venues perimeter debate is a priority for 2026. European regulators look set to take a harder line on firms operating multilateral trading systems without a trading venue licence. Speaking at the FIX EMEA Trading conference, Martijn Rookhuijzen, senior supervisor at the Dutch authority for...

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UK bond transparency jump outpaces EU, with reporting up 307%

The new post-trade transparency regime was introduced 1 December 2025 in the UK and 2 March 2026 in the EU. A FIX EMEA Trading panel debated how the transparency uplift has been markedly stronger in the UK and what the future impact of the new regime will be, from reporting domicile gaming to potential credit aggregated order books. Panellists at...

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