UK-based agency brokerage Olivetree Securities has hired industry veteran Martin Lupton to help develop relationships with the firm's institutional buy-side client base.
US agency boutique broker Rosenblatt Securities has partnered with NYSE Technologies, the commercial technology unit of exchange group NYSE Euronext, to help buy-side clients better analyse pre- and post-trade execution performance.
The Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME), British Bankers Association (BBA) and International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA), have said that they would back an extension to MiFID to deal with attempts at market manipulation.
The Committee of European Securities Regulators' recommendations to the European Commission as part of its MiFID review have met with mixed responses from the industry.
European multilateral trading facility BATS Europe has reported record European market share figures for July, as MTFs continue to gain ground against domestic exchanges.