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New systematic internalisers: the full list

Chris Hamblin

21 August 2017

The European Union Emissions Trading Scheme describes systematic internalisers as investment firms which, on an organised, frequent, systematic and substantial basis, "deal on own account" by executing clients' orders outside a regulated market, MTF (multilateral trading facility) or OTF (organised trading facility) without operating a multilateral system. According to article 4(19) of MiFID II, as the directive is called, a "multilateral system" is any system or facility operated and/or managed by an investment firm or a market operator in which multiple third-party buying and selling trading interests in financial instruments are able to interact in the system.

The outstanding feature of MiFID II is its insistence on all multilateral systems (a term not used in MiFID I) for the trading of financial instruments being regulated markets, MTFs or OTFs operated authorised firms or regulated markets. One of the means by which it seeks to do this is to improve trade and "transaction transparency" by extending the scope of systematic internalisers, which few people wanted to set up under MiFID I, much to the EU's disappointment. Another aim of the directive is to require systematic internalisers to give investors more information about the bonds and derivatives they are trading on their behalf.

The list below consists of several data entries for each systematic internaliser, separated by em dashes. These are: country, name of institution, town, website, status date, status, creation date, and comments.

Old entries

Only one entry on the list is old, dating from 2009. It is Knight Link Europe – London – www.knight.com – April 2009 – Active – April 2009 – Systematic Internaliser.