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The Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (known as "MiFID") as subsequently amended is a European Union law that provides harmonised regulation for investment services across the 31 member states of the European Economic Area (the 28 EU member states plus Iceland, Norway and Liechtenstein).

The directive's main objectives are to increase competition and consumer protection in investment services.

As of the effective date, 1 November 2007, it replaced the Investment Services Directive (ISD).

Data (or) is a set of values of qualitative or quantitative variables.

An example of qualitative data would be an anthropologist's handwritten notes about his or her interviews with people of an Indigenous tribe.

Pieces of data are individual pieces of information.

While the concept of data is commonly associated with scientific research, data is collected by a huge range of organizations and institutions, including businesses (e.g., sales data, revenue, profits, stock price), governments (e.g., crime rates, unemployment rates, literacy rates) and non-governmental organizations (e.g., censuses of the number of homeless people by non-profit organizations).

Collaboration is the process of two or more people or organizations working together to realize or achieve something successfully.

Collaboration is very similar to, but more closely aligned than, cooperation.

Most collaboration requires leadership, although the form of leadership can be social within a decentralized and egalitarian group.

Teams that work collaboratively can obtain greater resources, recognition and reward when facing competition for finite resources.

In philosophy, ideas are usually construed as mental representational images of some object.

Ideas can also be abstract concepts that do not present as mental images.

Many philosophers have considered ideas to be a fundamental ontological category of being.

The capacity to create and understand the meaning of ideas is considered to be an essential and defining feature of human beings.

In a popular sense, an idea arises in a reflexive, spontaneous manner, even without thinking or serious reflection, for example, when we talk about the idea of a person or a place.

A new or original idea can often lead to innovation.

Economic value is a measure of the benefit provided by a good or service to an economic agent.

It is generally measured relative to units of currency, and the interpretation is therefore "what is the maximum amount of money a specific actor is willing and able to pay for the good or service"?.