Niki Beattie, managing director at consultancy Market Structure Partners, said: “Mifid clearly has not achieved everything it set out to and the jury is out as to how much longer shareholders will keep the wave of new platforms going,…

…“Exchanges should not have the weight of lobby that they have. In Europe it appears as though people still believe exchanges are representing the interests of the market, as opposed to their shareholders,” said Niki Beattie, managing director…

Niki Beattie, managing director at consultancy Market Structure Partners, said: “This shows that stock exchanges have moved into a different realm. We now have a competitive marketplace for exchanges and as a result they will behave differently…

…“I suspect the Council want some stronger leverage and a clearer deadline to make the industry sit up and do something,” said Niki Beattie, managing director at consultancy Market Structure Partners…

Niki Beattie, managing director at Market Structure Partners, said: “We are looking to fill a niche area that the larger generic consultants cannot fill. Some clients want an army of resources…

Niki Beattie, managing director at consultancy Market Structure Practice, said this was a broader issue: “That a large proportion of overall European trading is by firms who do not have any form of regulatory oversight, makes it difficult to enforce…

…MiFID II states that data must be made available on reasonably commercial terms, but Niki Beattie, managing director of consultancy Market Structure Partners, said more must be done.

Niki Beattie, founder and chief executive of Market Structure Partners, a capital markets consultancy, said it was significant that Eurex had secured brokers…

…from senior voices on the buy-side is that the dark pool is the best place to trade in a bad environment,” said Niki Beattie, founding partner at consultancy Market Structure Partners…

Niki Beattie, chief executive of consultancy Market Structure Partners, said: “I’m a strong believer in competition, but it is a complete fallacy that we will ever have competition in market data. There are so many infrastructure and regulatory issues…