Introduction to MiFID

The objective of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) is to introduce further safeguards for investors and allow firms to operate across the EU under the standardised rules of their home regulator. The desire to minimise the risks associated with the dynamic change in regulatory compliance and corporate governance necessitates a level of knowledge and information integration that has not been required in the past.

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Information Management Challenges

The scale of many IT infrastructures continues to grow and the traditional approach of solving problems on piecemeal basis with standalone solutions has only led to further data fragmentation. As a leading supplier of software for information-driven businesses, Oracle has been contributing to industry initiatives by identifying potential data management challenges introduced by MiFID and aligning technologies to improve the flexibility of IT infrastructures.

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Partner Community

In order to address the MiFID provisions and provide industry solutions to the market, Oracle is working programmatically with our Capital Markets partners to meet and deliver related requirements. Through our extending network of key 'Independent Software Vendors' (ISV's) and 'System Integrator' (SI's) partners, Oracle is working across multiple disciplines to ensure that there is a strategic fit between our partners solutions and the underpinning Oracle 'Compliance Information Architecture'.

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Market-led Solutions

Oracle's Regulatory Compliance Information Architecture provides a strategic pre-integrated standards-based data management infrastructure on which to implement market-led MiFID solutions. By bringing together components of the Information Architecture that address key data management challenges and the extensive partner community, Oracle is able to support solutions to Client Management, Record Keeping, Pre- / Post- Trade Transparency, Order Handling and Execution provisions.

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