The 11th of May 2020
We are pleased to announce that Capital Market Partners A/S (CMP) is reappearing. Due to the current Covid-19 situation, our now previous owner LPA Holding Germany GmBH has decided to sell LPA Nordics A/S in a Management buy-out.
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CMP has created a value-added solution called RegTech DataHub© that is a complete data framework collecting all MiFID II related data provided by Esma and other complementary sources. All the data is combined and structured in a way that leads to more efficient usage of MiFID II data and potentially huge cost savings.
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As described in the previous blog, the European Commission has presented an action plan for financing sustainable growth (read it here). We go a step further in this blog by zooming in on concrete proposals from the action plan and examples of the consequences this can have for capital market players.
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Responsible Investment and sustainable growth are amongst the hottest topics in the financial world. The European Commission has placed itself in front of this agenda with the launch of their ‘Action Plan for Financing Sustainable Growth’. The first EU regulation is already adopted, yet financial market participants are only at the beginning of this regulatory movement with sustainability as the focal point. Follow the first blog about the importance of ESG and sustainability in the capital market.
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By Christian Thygesen, Partner & Chairman of the Board | The 27th of May, 2019
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Status on Post-trade Transparency Data Availability
Background: This week the Danish Financial Supervisory Authorities (Finanstilsynet) published its second thematic report on the implementation of the MiFID II directive. The first report published in June 2018 assessed the structure of the Danish UCITS fund market post MiFID II
By Christian Thygesen, Partner & Chairman of the Board | The 23rd of November, 2018
Some 6 years ago, we at Capital Market Partners (CMP) toured the country visiting smaller and medium sized banks to suggest looking at the possibility of outsourcing (parts of) their Back-Office operations, in particular the settlement and custody of non-Danish securities. To put it nicely, our success was limited. We struggled to understand why these institutions wanted to maintain operations which – on a cost-per-transaction basis – seemed expensive. We never came up with a better answer than the idea that it was part of the DNA of these institutions to have such a department. Read more
There is a movement within the financial industry regarding sourcing. Some companies choose to outsource, while others decide to pull back similar tasks previously outsourced. But, why do we experience these different moves? Which factors determine whether something should be outsourced or taken back into the organization? The right match of whether to in- or outsource can be very different from one organization to another. But the reasoning behind, why to in- or outsource, should always depend on company specific objectives.
Net Asset Value (NAV) is value per share of a mutual fund or an exchange-traded fund (ETF) on a specific date or time. For fund managers, this means that accurate prices must be provided on a daily basis in a highly regulated and fast-moving environment – this post goes through four steps that elaborate on how to ensure accurate and timely NAV in relation to processes, system and platform, data and controls.