The Central Bank of Ireland (CBI) has issued a letter to Irish Funds in response to queries received relating to the outcome of the Central Bank’s thematic review of the implementation of its framework…
On 14th January 2020, the Central Bank published Consultation Paper 135 “Consultation on Competent Authority Discretions in the Investment Firms Directive and the Investment Firms Regulation”. The consultation seeks stakeholders’ views on the…
The Federation of European Securities Exchanges (FESE) has announced that it welcomes ESMA’s consultation on ‘guidelines on the MiFID II/MiFIR obligations on market data’, and appreciates ESMA’s recommendation in its…
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) publishes the final countdown – Completing sterling LIBOR transition by end-2021. The LIBOR administrator, ICE Benchmark Administration, is consulting on ceasing publication of all sterling…
On 12th January 2021, ESMA published an updated compliance table on the reporting to Competent Authorities under Article 37 of the MMF Regulation (ESMA34-49-173). The majority of Competent Authorities have reported…
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published the Guidance on the scope of the UK provisions which implemented MiFID and CRD IV. The main purpose is to help UK firms…
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has updated its website to explain its proposed process for adding a new sub-fund to an umbrella scheme that will be in the temporary marketing…
The Austrian Financial Market Authority has published a one-time registration fee as well as a regular annual fee that has to be paid for all foreign investment funds (UCITS &…
On 7th January 2020, Finansinspektionen (FI) announced that it has evaluated how mutual funds in Sweden follow the rules that exist for managing liquidity risks. The supervisory activity carried out during…
On 6th January 2021, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA)launched a Common Supervisory Action (CSA) with national competent authorities (NCAs) on the supervision of costs and fees of UCITS across…
