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Opaque means lacking the desirable quality of making full disclosure of information to markets and other stakeholders.
(PFOF).


Opaque is the opposite of ''transparent.''
Payment for order flow is defined by the UK [[Financial Conduct Authority]] (FCA) in FG12/13 [http://www.fca.org.uk/your-fca/documents/finalised-guidance/fsa-fg1213], originally issued by the former [[FSA]], as an arrangement whereby a [[broker]] receives payment from [[market maker]]s, in exchange for sending order flow to them.


The FCA sees such arrangements (whatever called) as creating potential conflict of interest and pressing against best execution of orders for clients and, accordingly, compromising observation of its best execution rule.


== See also ==
More generally in the European Union, such payments may fall foul of the EU's [[MiFID]] rules on "inducements" reflected in the FCA's Handbook ([[http://fshandbook.info/FS/html/FCA/COBS/2/3]] at 2.3.1).
* [[Corporate governance]]
* [[Disclosure]]
* [[Disclosure and Transparency Rules]]
* [[Efficient market]]
* [[Ethics]]
* [[Financial reporting]]
* [[Invisible FX]]
* [[Price transparency]]
* [[Regulation]]
* [[Stakeholder]]
* [[Tax transparency initiative]]
* [[Transaction cost analysis]]
* [[Transparency]]
* [[Transparent]]
* [[Visibility]]


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Revision as of 08:02, 13 December 2016

(PFOF).

Payment for order flow is defined by the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) in FG12/13 [1], originally issued by the former FSA, as an arrangement whereby a broker receives payment from market makers, in exchange for sending order flow to them.

The FCA sees such arrangements (whatever called) as creating potential conflict of interest and pressing against best execution of orders for clients and, accordingly, compromising observation of its best execution rule.

More generally in the European Union, such payments may fall foul of the EU's MiFID rules on "inducements" reflected in the FCA's Handbook ([[2]] at 2.3.1).