The new or updated Q&As cover the topics of best execution, client categorisation, provision of investment services and activities by third country firms, and other issues.
      
    
    
      
	The overall MiFID  II Q&A provide clarifications on the following topics:
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		Best execution
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		Suitability and appropriateness
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		Recording of telephone conversations and electronic communications
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		Post-sale reporting
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		Record keeping
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		Investment advice on an independent basis
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		Inducements (research)
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		Information on charges and costs
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		Underwriting and placement of a financial instrument
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		Client categorisation
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		Inducements
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		Provision of investment services and activities by third country firms
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		Application of MiFID  II after 3 January 2018, including issues of ‘late transposition’
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		Other issues
	MiFID  II applies from 3 January 2018 and will strengthen the protection of investors by both introducing new requirements and reinforcing existing ones. The purpose of this Q&A is to promote common supervisory approaches and practices in the application of MiFID  II/ MiFIR for investor protection topics.
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