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The Unspoken Cost of Regulation

A direct consequence of regulation aimed at dismantling the cult of “Too Big to Fail” has been the struggle of younger firms who are increasingly “Too Small to Comply”.

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AI and robots should not be attributed legal personhood

Technology has revolutionised the financial industry, but we’re long overdue a revolution in the way we think about its future role and the policies that should govern it, write Daniel Schlaepfer and Hugo Kruyne.

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SVI in Brussels: There’s no such thing as perfect regulation

On Monday I had the pleasure of taking part in a panel discussion in Brussels on the evolution and disruption of financial regulation in the 21st century, hosted by New Europe, a leading European affairs publication. My fellow panellists and I – coming from across the financial industry spectrum, including participants, advisory, research, and regulation (though all speaking in a personal capacity) – engaged in a wide-ranging conversation on what we had learnt from the first few months of MiFID II, its impact and unintended consequences, and made some forecasts for the future.

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Market-making and Market-breaking

As with any other time in the history of financial markets, there is much contention surrounding the extent to which the market should be regulated.

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Global markets in a fractured world: In search of the right chemistry

The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum at Davos in Switzerland never fails to attract the financial world’s leading thinkers, and January 2018’s gathering was no different. We’ve recently been writing about the manner in which global markets make global rules, so one discussion that was of particular interest to us was a talk on “Global Markets in a Fractured World”. The panel was moderated by Maria Bartiromo and featured Adena Friedman of NASDAQ, Stephen A. Schwarzman of Blackstone, Frank Appel of Deutsche Post, Tidjane Thiam of Credit Suisse, and Brian T. Moynihan of Bank of America.

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Daniel Schlaepfer, CFA

President and CEO

Daniel Schlaepfer is the President and CEO of Select Vantage Inc (SVI), and its affiliates Select Vantage Canada Inc, Select Vantage Ontario Inc and Elite Vantage Placement Ltd. SVI is a global leader in electronic market-making, employing over 2,500 staff in 39 countries. On any given day, the firm can trade over US$3 billion a day on global stock markets.

Educated in Canada, Daniel received an MBA from the John Molson School of Business, Goodman Institute of Investment Management at Concordia University, and a Bachelor of Commerce from the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. He is a CFA charter holder and passed the FINRA series 7 and 24 exams as well as CSI courses, CSC and PDO.

In 2019 Daniel was named to Canada’s Top 40 under 40 list and Concordia University’s Top 50 under 50 alumni shaping business in Canada. He is also a serving member of the Ontario Securities Commission’s Market Structure Advisory Committee (MSAC), a forum that discusses issues associated with market structure and marketplace operations in the Canadian markets.