Ray Tubman: We've only just begun …

Ex-post costs and charges

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Rather than providing the necessary transparency, argues Ray Tubman, there are some very clear omissions in, and adjustments needed to, the ex-post costs and charges requirements recently introduced by MiFID II

With the regulatory deadline now upon us, the ex-post costs and charges reporting required by the second iteration of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) has been generated. We now all await the feedback from clients and wonder if there will be spikes in call centres resulting from clients finally being aware - in a monetary sense, at least - of the amount of charges being levied on their accounts. The goal of transparency can only be considered a move in the right direction - after all, there is no conceivable way that hiding this information can be considered ethi...

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