The Central Bank of Ireland (the “Central Bank”) has introduced welcome changes to the authorisation and post-authorisation of UCITS and Retail AIFs by applying a self-certification process to a number of actions and a new...more
10/16/2018
/ AIFs ,
Asset Management ,
Central Bank of Ireland ,
Depository Institutions ,
Financial Indices ,
Investment Funds ,
Ireland ,
Limited Partnership Agreements ,
Mergers ,
Self-Certification ,
Share Classes ,
UCITS
It is now only two months until the 3 January 2018 compliance deadline for the revised Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) and the 1 January 2018 compliance deadline for the EU Packaged Retail Investment and...more
The Council of the European Union on 13 May 2014 formally endorsed a new regulatory regime that will replace the current Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID), which has been in force since 2007. The new...more
7/6/2016
/ Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) ,
Asset Management ,
Commodities ,
Cross-Border Transactions ,
Derivatives ,
Equity Markets ,
ETFs ,
EU ,
European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) ,
Investor Protection ,
MiFID ,
MiFID II ,
MiFIR ,
Over The Counter Derivatives (OTC) ,
Pooled Investment Vehicles ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Retail Investors ,
UCITS
The quota allocation – the first of its kind awarded to the United States – was announced on June 7, 2016 by Yi Gang, Deputy Governor of the People’s Bank of China, the country’s central bank. This represents an apparent...more