Market Structure Partners’ CEO Niki Beattie is often quoted in the financial press on a wide range of international market regulation issues. Find all the links to the articles below.

Niki Beattie is also regularly featured in video interviews across the media and at industry events.

18 Oct 2010
Is the party ending for high-frequency traders?
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Niki Beattie, a driving force behind alternative trading venue Turquoise as Merrill Lynch’s head of market structure, and founder of consultancy Market Structure Partners, believes that Europe’s trading markets are going through a period of evolution. She said: “The whole industry is going though…

04 Oct 2010
Bats Europe raises the stakes
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Niki Beattie, a former driving force behind Turquoise as Merrill Lynch’s head of market structure and now head of consultancy Market Structure Partners, said that being part of the Bats stable offered more than just cost synergies. She said: “Bats do have a reputation…

27 Sep 2010
FN100 Most Influential 2010
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Only two fifths of last year’s FN100 ranking of the most influential people in the European capital markets have kept their places on this, the sixth annual list. But, given that the 2009 list contained a mere 25 returning entrants, the lower turnover represents a measure of stabilisation and normality.

20 Sep 2010
Beattie sees flaws behind the MiFID makeover
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“The credit crisis has not helped with Mifid implementation, and it hasn’t really been fairly implemented in every country…….  She also points to issues such as clearing and settlement, which was not addressed in the original directive, and continues to be a big omission in Mifid II…….Beattie said consolidated data had a particular set of issues, and noted concern

24 Aug 2010
Quick View: A Chi-X-BATS combo?
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…technology connections and post-trade arrangements that this involves.“Strategically it makes perfect sense,” says Niki Beattie, managing director of The Market Structure Practice, a consultancy. “Whether they [BATS] are the ones who’ve made… By Jeremy Grant

18 Aug 2010
FIX stakes consolidated tape claim, but regulation may be inevitable
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… tape, commercial barriers still exist. According to Niki Beattie, managing director of consultancy firm Market Structure Partners, one …

16 Jun 2010
Liquidnet to launch in New Zealand
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…dozen around the world, continues the trend toward alternative trading platforms that operate outside incumbent exchanges.Niki Beattie, managing director at Market Structure Partners, a London-based consultancy, said traditional exchanges had failed to… By Peter Smith in Sydney

17 May 2010
Coherent post-trade data needed for effective surveillance – study
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… and Realities of Equity Trading in Europe’, authored by Niki Beattie, managing director of Market Structure Partners and an ex-Merrill Lynch …

19 Apr 2010
Plight of retail investors comes into focus
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…aimed at day traders. “There is the intention of making it a European platform to connect day traders across Europe.”  Niki Beattie, managing director of The Market Structure Practice, a consultancy, says the new ventures mark a recognition that the power…

19 Apr 2010
Buy-side must learn to trade with the ‘enemy’
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Traditional buy-side houses may find themselves interacting more often and more directly with high-frequency shops, which have usurped brokers as market makers, says Niki Beattie, managing director of UK consultancy The Market Structure Practice…