MI3 - Insight Innovation Implementation
About Market Insight Innovation Implementation (MI3)
Integral to Plato Partnership’s vision is academic research – the Market Innovator (MI3). This produces independent research and analytics, open to peer review, and aimed at seeking out ways in which the Plato community can collaborate to build a better financial ecosystem.
Plato Partnership’s members believe that there has long been a desire to have a mechanism whereby all market participants can collectively address regulatory imperatives, communication flows, or other universal processes that are not competitive differentiators. The economics of tackling those individual issues through a preformed collective enables Plato Partnership to take serious costs out of the system and earn trust.
The European Market Structure Research Network
Plato Partnership is responsible for the European Market Structure Research Network. The initiative builds and grows a network that facilitates independent academic research across the full breadth of the market structure debate.
The initiative marks a realisation of Plato Partnership’s core objective of building a meaningful vehicle with which to combine the expertise of academia and the practical knowledge bank of market participants on both the buy and sell side.
Combining market participants and academics in this way is a global first that allows for the in-depth analysis of consolidated venue data sets usually beyond the reaches of availability to academia. The research and analysis around this data provides the foundation for a number of leading conferences and high-level industry roundtables to identify and promote appropriate market structures for the benefit of all participants.
“This is an exciting and important initiative that explicitly recognises the need for academic research into these key issues. Such research will be significantly enhanced by improved data availability and the implicit links between academic researchers and practitioners that this project envisages.”
Professor Sir John Beddington, head of a wide-ranging UK government-backed 2012 study into the long-term effects of computerised trading on markets
Submit your idea
Submit your ideas below on areas where we might consider sponsoring research. Or just share your general ideas and feedback on our Market Innovator (MI3).