BNP Paribas: evaluating tools and practices to be big theme
Following a year of intense preparation for Mifid II
If 2017 was the time when the foreign exchange industry got ready for best execution requirements and the second Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (Mifid II) by getting their processes and systems in place, then 2018 is going to be the year when these tools are put into practice and refined, says Petra Wikstrom, global head of execution and alpha solutions at BNP Paribas.
“This was really the year when all talk and planning transformed into action,” says Wikstrom in describing the past
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