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  • Sovereign wealth funds and pension funds are having a big impact and forcing buyout houses to adapt
  • Arbitration hasn’t traditionally been used in audit-related disputes but its increasing use is an important opportunity for audit relationships globally
  • What are the most effective ways to comply with the regulation?
  • Some of the world's biggest banks are threatening to take their business elsewhere unless the brokers they interact with become trading venues under Mifid II. But brokers, many of them small, voice-based firms, argue they are being treated unfairly and don't have the infrastructure required to host a venue. At the most extreme end of the spectrum, it could force some out of business
  • As predicted, the new framework has forced a dramatic shift towards large-in-scale deals as traders look for workarounds to the contentious double volume caps. Here block trading specialists, bankers and operators of the EU's biggest dark pools explain what other factors are at play, including competition between active and passive strategies and the rise of technology
  • The firm's Europe president Mark Hemsley responds to accusations from the AMF last week that its practices are not entirely transparent. Periodic auctions, which reveal limited info to the market before an order takes place, have become drastically more popular since Mifid II's double volume caps took effect, But they're not exactly what regulators had in mind when drafting the rules
  • The market is lobbying for CoCo changes. Issuers want to see greater clarity and more harmonisation from regulators, while both buy and sellside are calling for the equity conversion trigger to move higher. Here both buy and sellside sources explain why introducing a higher mandatory threshold would help, while others would like to see a whole new type of AT1..
  • In a low interest rate environment the high risk products should be flying off the shelves, but despite initial interest, investors and issuers are increasingly seeing them as a structural and procedural minefield. Both sides are turning towards other forms of bail-in debt such as TLAC bonds. Here portfolio managers and in-house bank debt specialists explain why
  • How damaging is the regulation to distributed ledger technology and how to reconcile the two
  • Unless there is more global collaboration, a blockchain is only as strong as its weakest link