The identifier challenge: Attributes of MiFID II that cannot be ignored
Richard Young · Journal of securities operations & custody · 2017
Much has been written about the revised version of the EU Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II), which is scheduled to be implemented in January 2018. Now, however, the data aspects of MiFID II are receiving more attention, and firms are particularly focused on some of the data standards choices that regulators have imposed for the first time in MiFID II. Managing the identifiers for financial instruments and entities is central to this challenge, and is one of the core requirements for firms MiFID II compliance.