Reuters has identified and developed solutions to address the three biggest challenges posed by MiFID.

Data fragmentation and consolidation

Before the implementation of MiFID, equity trade and price data on individual stocks was concentrated on just one exchange. Following MiFID trade and price data has been split between multiple exchanges and other publication venues. So how can you cost effectively consolidate data from a range of venues in one place? Reuters is able to provide you with this consolidation.
Consolidating a fragmented data market

Trade and quote publication

MiFID obliges you to publish trade and, potentially, price data in equities- but it gives you a choice where to publish it. Publishing your information with us rather than via an exchange is cost effective and won't impact your business model.
Meeting your transparency obligations

Best execution

Under MiFID, you must measure your execution performance and prove it's in good shape. Reuters has hosted and deployed tools that we expect to become the industry standard in low cost transaction analysis.
Demonstrating best execution

This month's focus:

What's happening in European equities?

In the lead up to MiFID go live in November 2007, there was a lot of speculation about fragmenting liquidity in European equity markets. At Reuters we launched our Market Share Report to give a high level view of trading across the European Equities and help inform our customers' trading decisions.

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