On September 16, ISDA finalized a paper on the pre-trade transparency requirements for derivatives under the Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MIFIR) following the European Parliament’s draft report on the review of the revised Markets in Financial Instruments Directive/MIFIR. ISDA supports Danuta Huebner’s suggested deletion of the pre-trade transparency requirements for on-venue request-for-quotation and voice trading.
Documents (1) for ISDA Commentary on Pre-trade Transparency in MIFIR
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