by Darren Sharma | Jan 4, 2018 | Market views
Analysts at Frontline are mentored by city veterans, who add front-end knowledge and on-shore experience to their output. This raises our research quality by several notches. Our senior equity research adviser Daniel Davies writes in the FT on banking culture,...
by Darren Sharma | Jan 4, 2018 | Market views
The Financial Times and trade press are carrying a story about a leaked draft of the MiFID II research rules. We have not seen a copy of the leaked documents yet, but from media reports, it looks like the state of play is this: The compromise position appears to have...
by Darren Sharma | Jan 4, 2018 | Market views
The Financial Times wrote this week about a powerful new trend – locating jobs where they can be done most efficiently. Cost pressures are not new; nor are multiple locations. The new trend is that the distinctions between onshore and offshore are breaking down. The...
by Darren Sharma | Jan 4, 2018 | Market views
The big news from the latest note is that the FCA has (finally) recognised that for research to be sold to investors, there needs to be some allowance in the rules for free trial periods. These are now allowed, subject to quite strict constraints on them being...
by Darren Sharma | Jan 4, 2018 | Market views
The latest news on MiFID 2 is even less promising than we had expected. Not only is there no sign of the delegated acts we have been waiting for since last summer, but there has actually been negative progress on regulations which we thought were finalised. The...
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