Review of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MIFID)

Overall, MiFID has contributed to the further marginalization of individual investors, despite the fundamental economic purpose of the capital markets (as opposed to intermediate finance) that is to connect directly end investors and issuers of capital. MiFID facilitates the re-intermediation of equity markets to the benefit of financial intermediaries - especially those who could invest in information technology to profit from the fragmentation - and to the detriment of non financial issuers as well as end investors, pushing those further to “packaged” - i.e. high embedded commissions - products.

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