Exchanging Ideas #5 : Direct Market Access or Retail Service Provider?

Posted: 27 May 2020

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Our Exchanging Ideas video series features experts from across the wider London Stock Exchange community and has been created to share key insights and topical information with individual investors. Our community of experts includes our own London Stock Exchange staff, the member firms that we work with on a daily basis to ensure effective running of the London markets and guest experts. 

In this episode, Maria Dieguez from Interactive Brokers talks to Marguerite Laferrère, Capital Markets Marketing Manager for London Stock Exchange about the different ways retail investors can access the market and the differences between Direct Market Access (DMA) and the Retail Service Provider (RSP).

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