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Markets in Financial
Instruments Directive (MiFID)
DIRECTIVE 2004/39/EC
Article 39
Organisational requirements
Member States shall require the regulated market:
(a) to have arrangements to identify clearly and manage the
potential adverse consequences, for the operation of the regulated
market or for its participants, of any conflict of interest
between the interest of the regulated market, its owners or its
operator and the sound functioning of the regulated market, and in
particular where such conflicts of interest might prove
prejudicial to the accomplishment of any functions delegated to
the regulated market by the competent authority;
(b) to be adequately equipped to manage the risks to which it is
exposed, to implement appropriate arrangements and systems to
identify all significant risks to its operation,
and to put in place effective measures to mitigate those risks;
(c) to have arrangements for the sound management of the technical
operations of the system, including the establishment of effective
contingency arrangements to cope with
risks of systems disruptions;
(d) to have transparent and non-discretionary rules and procedures
that provide for fair and orderly trading and establish objective
criteria for the efficient execution of orders;
(e) to have effective arrangements to facilitate the efficient and
timely finalisation of the transactions executed under its
systems;
(f) to have available, at the time of authorisation and on an
ongoing basis, sufficient financial resources to facilitate its
orderly functioning, having regard to the nature and extent of the
transactions concluded on the market and the range and degree of
the risks to which it is exposed.
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