FIX Protocol Conference in London Draws 500

More than 500 people attended the FIX Protocol EMEA Trading conference in London last week, making it the largest financial services conference in London so far this year and delighting the organisers. If there was a pervasive theme at the conference it was that the buy-side has to become more active in the business, from [...]

Chris Skinner’s Guide to MiFID

I have written about MiFID often enough that I can almost figure out the acronym without going to Google. Ok, not quite – look it up yourself. So I expected my friend Chris Skinner’s book on The Future of Investing in Europe’s Markets after MiFID to be moderately interesting but hardly surprising. Wrong. Well, it [...]

MiFID and More MiFID — April 15 Conference in London

JWG-IT, the neutral think-tank for EU-driven change in financial services, and Cre8 Results, specialist financial services marketing communications agency, today announced their plans for The Forum, a pan-European series of industry conferences, starting in London on 15 April 2008.  The industry forums, encompassing events in Paris, Madrid, Frankfurt and Milan, are designed to clarify the [...]