Purpose – New regulatory initiatives, principally MiFID and RegNMS, challenge wholesale financial firms to prove that they can provide best execution for their clients. This article aims to outline the background to the problem and suggest that current research into SVM/DAPR applications may...

Purpose – Forthcoming requirements in MiFID and RegNMS mean that buy‐side and sell‐side firms need to find ways of showing regulators that they are sifting through their trading volumes in a justifiable, methodical manner looking for anomalous trades and investigating them, in order to...

MiFID requires investment firms to be able to demonstrate that they have secured the best possible execution for their clients, taking into account the various characteristics of the trades involved. In this article, Mark Yeandle, Senior Consultant at Z/Yen, reviews the development and testing...

Commissioned by Busan Metropolitan City, this special report provides an overview of the maritime sector including major ports and related maritime financial centres. Global trade growth drives global shipping growth. It is quite clear that Asia, and in particular China, now leads in terms of...

Commissioned by the Toronto Financial Services Alliance (TFSA), this report provides a high level comparison of the regulatory environment that impacts the financial services industry in some of the main jurisdictions based on relevant instrumental factors, responses to an online questionnaire...

We are pleased to present a short update on the progress being made in the Busan International Finance Center (BIFC). BIFC is a member of Z/Yen's Vantage Financial Centres programme. The aim of this update is to provide readers with news about the exciting progress being made by the city of...

We are pleased to present a short update on the progress being made in the Busan International Finance Center (BIFC). BIFC is a member of Z/Yen's Vantage Financial Centres network. The aim of this update is to provide readers with news about the exciting progress being made by the city of Busan...

We are pleased to present a short update on the progress being made in the Astana International Finance Centre (AIFC). AIFC is a member of Z/Yen's Vantage Financial Centres programme. The aim of this update is to provide readers with news about the exciting progress being made by the city of...

We are pleased to present another report in the Financial Centre Futures series. This report concentrates on financial centres that have been identified as the most likely to become more significant in the next few years.Z/Yen Partners has been studying the competitiveness of financial centres...