For more than 25 years, the essential text for anybody wishing to navigate the regulatory environment for UCITS in Ireland has been the UCITS Notices which were supplemented by UCITS Guidance and then the UCITS Q&A....more
There has been another very significant twist in the somewhat chaotic implementation of the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) as the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has today requested the...more
The European Market Infrastructure Regulation (Regulation No. 648/2012), known as “EMIR”, requires entities that transact derivatives to report prescribed details of any financial derivative instruments (“FDIs”) they conclude...more
The first item on the UCITS agenda for 2013 – the ESMA Guidelines on ETFs and Other UCITS Issues (the “Guidelines”) – has gone live. This article provides an update and clarity around the recently finalised Guidelines2 since...more
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The European Securities and Markets Authority (“ESMA”) published final guidelines on repurchase (repo) and reverse repurchase agreements for UCITS funds on 4 December 2012. This is a follow-up to ESMA’s publication in July...more