Införandet av MiFID II : En förändrad framtid för finansinstituten?

Sammanfattning: Financial advisors has a responsibility to cater customers needs, but are at the same time controlled through corporate governance to benefit their employer, which has caused troubles regarding opportunism. MiFID II intends to regulate opportunism through more documentation and regulations on commission. The purpose of this study is therefore to investigate how governance within financial institutes is affected by regulations implemented through MiFID II. Since there is a lack of theories and research within the field, the study uses an explorative approach. To achieve the purpose of the study a qualitative research method was used, where data was collected through interviews with eight respondents from different financial institutes. Furthermore, how corporate governance was affected by MiFID II was examined by using theories on knowledge asymmetry, agent theory, management control systems and reward systems. The results of the study indicate that the opportunistic management has declined due to the removal of monetary rewards and salestargets, which entails more focus on customer satisfaction. The results also show that regulations on commission has caused changes in payment methods, which isn’t necessarily a positive aspect for customers. The conclusions of the study show that the financial institutes has replaced management by objectives with action controls containing less liberty and more standardization, which reduces opportunism. However, the increasing knowledge asymmetry is problematic since it prevents opportunistic management from being completely removed. Another vital consequence of the increased documentation through MiFID II is fewer counselling meetings, which causes several institutes to shift focus towards wealthier customers.