Platforms win small on Mifid day one

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Hanging on: “The rule we have for everyone in my team is everything below the [size threshold], you don’t quote. You tell the clients ‘I’m sorry, but you have to go to the trading venue directly’,” says a European bank's rates sales head

One of the first concrete effects of Europe’s new trading and transparency rules has been to limit the choices available to buy-side firms when executing smaller trades.

On day one of the second Markets in Financial Instruments Directive, some banks refused to offer bond prices bilaterally as a way of avoiding the accompanying disclosure burden, directing clients to trading platforms instead.

Central Banking’s sister publication Risk.net spoke to three sources at banks classed as systematic

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