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Technologies and innovation is significant in reshaping industry, says report
13 September 2018 London
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

“New technologies and innovation will be a significant force in reshaping the industry”, according to James Kemp, a managing director at The Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME)

TNF: Room for improvement around collaboration
27 June 2018 Vienna
Reporter: Becky Butcher

The industry has done well in cooperating, but it is still not enough, according to a panellist at The Network Forum in Vienna

AFME: Brexit isn’t top of the agenda
30 May 2018 London
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Brexit isn’t top of the agenda for firm’s in the financial services industry, according to a panellist at this year’s Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) conference

AFME: Technology, the big game changer?
24 May 2018 London
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Some 52 percent of an audience at this year’s Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) conference in London said that technology is the main game changer in the industry

AFME: We make progress when someone tells us what progress to make, says panellist
24 May 2018 London
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

The panellists discussed the regulatory landscape, capital markets union and European post-trade forum in a post-Brexit EU, including discussions over whether or not technologies will be a driver or an impediment to early success

AFME calls for further progress in European post-trade reform
24 May 2018 London
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

AFME’s post-trade division has published a new white paper setting out a vision for a future post-trade system in Europe

AFME panellist: Don’t get distracted by DLT
24 May 2018 London
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

“There is something sexy going on at the moment, and it is called distributed ledger technology,” one panellist said at this year’s AFME conference

AFME panel: Communication with clients is key
23 May 2018 London
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

“The key is to have close communication with our clients,” one panellist said at this years AFME conference

AFME: financial institutions need to work collectively for long-term benefits
01 March 2018 London
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

The report sets out potential future opportunities for utilities use across the capital markets, as well as the challenges preventing utilities from coming to market

AFME urges integrated post-trading system in EU
15 November 2017 Brussels
Reporter: Theo Andrew

Responding on the final day of the commission’s public consultation on post trade in the Capital Markets Union, AFME urged for the “swift dismantling of the European Post-Trade Forum barriers”

MiFID II creates “much uncertainty” for EEA members
06 November 2017 Oslo
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

For EEA members, “much uncertainty” remains regarding ESMA's assessment of the EEA legal basis for MiFID II, according to Norway’s Finanstilsynet

FCA takes pragmatic approach to MiFID II deadline
21 September 2017 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The UK’s financial conduct authority has indicated it will accept a soft roll out of the second Markets in Financial Instruments Directive in January