MiFID, EMIR, AIFMD, UCITS V Content

On July 17, the Financial Conduct Authority issued a policy statement setting out its response to the feedback received to Consultation Paper CP23/26, proposing rules and guidance necessary to implement the Overseas Funds Regime.

On February 12, 2024, we submitted the attached response to the UK Financial Conduct Authority's (FCA) consultation on Implementing the Overseas Fund Regime (CP:23/26) proposing new rules and guidance to put the Overseas Funds Regime (OFR) into operation. This establishes the...

Following an extended period of trilogue negotiations and the adoption of a provisional agreement in July 2023, the final texts reflecting revisions to the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) and the Directive on Undertakings for Collective Investments in Securities...

On October 5, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published a call for evidence on shortening the settlement cycle (Call for Evidence). ESMA is seeking stakeholder views and quantitative evidence to better understand issues and costs and benefits associated with...

In February, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published a discussion paper on updating and improving the regime for asset management in the United Kingdom (UK).[1] We submitted the attached response on May 21, making the following two high-level points, as well as comments on...

ICI Global recently submitted the attached comment letters in response to consultations issued by HM Treasury and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) as the first step in the UK Government's process of establishing an alternative disclosure regime for the United Kingdom (UK) that...

On February 8, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU's financial markets regulator and supervisor, published its inaugural market report on European Union (EU) Money Market Funds (MMF).

The International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) published on January 27, 2023, the second edition of its Investment Funds Statistics Report (IFSR). The report contains an analysis of national-level aggregated data, which is sourced directly from supervisory data. This...