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Committee of European Securities Regulators Statement: CESR begins the process to overhaul MiFID by consulting on policy options

( April 13, 2010, 13:14 GMT | Official Statement) -- Extract: In its three consultation papers, CESR addresses areas of the MiFID legal framework where it has identified a need for improvement, including quality, cost and consolidation of post-trade transparency data and delays in the publication of such data. Furthermore, with the global financial crisis in the background, regulators have seen a need to focus more on selling practices for certain financial instruments, in order to further improve the protection of investors, in particular retail investors.CESR publishes today three consultation papers on its technical advice to the Commission. The papers are to be seen in the context of reviewing MiFID, the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive that entered into force in November 2007. The review includes proposed technical advice by CESR on investor protection and intermediaries (Ref. CESR/10-417), equity markets (Ref. CESR/10-394) and transaction reporting (Ref. CESR/10-292). CESR invites stakeholders to comment on all of the three consultation papers by 31 May 2010....

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