ESMA Greenwashing Rules and Regulatory Overreach
ESMA Greenwashing Rules and Regulatory Overreach We haven’t had to wait too long before receiving some official feedback on one of the most recent endeavours carried out by ESMA –…
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Simplifying the UCITS Marketing Passport Notification Buried under the vast amount of documentation produced by ESMA as part of regulatory convergence and other similar exercises, in mid-December 2022 the final…
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Overseas Persons Exclusion and the UK Third Country Regime The UK maintains its traditional openness to international business even post Brexit, with the departure from the EU offers UK authorities…
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Marketing offshore AIFs in Europe under AIFMD National Private Placement Regime (NPPR) is still very hot topic. Notwithstanding extensive discussions and ESMA opinions in the recent past around the possibility…
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AMF Ramps Up Sustainability Disclosures for Funds in France Written in collaboration with the experts at InReg The French Regulator has recently published on its website a recommendation relevant to all the…
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Mind the Gap. UK Facilities Agent Services and TPR Notification The UK is today still fictitiously part of the EU during what is defined, in Brexit jargon, Transition Period. With…
Read More Add Sub-funds in the UK Temporary Permission Regime
Add Sub-funds in the UK Temporary Permission Regime So, you are most likely one of the wise fund managers or promoters to have had your UCITS authorised for marketing in…
Read More All You Need to Know about UCITS Marketing in Italy
All You Need to Know about UCITS Marketing in Italy With assets under management easily exceeding a trillion Euros, nearly half of which accounted for by the fund industry, Italy…
Read More What You Need to Know about Marketing UCITS in UK post Brexit
What You Need to Know about Marketing UCITS in UK Post Brexit Discussions abound on the consequences of Brexit for UK market participants. Most of the focus so far has…
Read More AIFMD Pre Marketing. Rubber Meets the Road.
Where the Rubber Meets the Road on AIFMD Pre Marketing By August 2021 most of Europe will implement the so-called Cross Border Distribution of Investment Funds Directive (the Directive). The reason why…
Read More ManCo Due Diligence. Quick Facts for US Fund Managers
ManCo Due Diligence. Quick Facts for US Fund Managers ManCos, a term most commonly used in the investment management world to refer to both UCITS management companies as well as…
Read More Marketing UCITS in Europe via Social Media?
Marketing UCITS in Europe via Social Media? The Cross Border Distribution of Investment Funds Directive comes with a set of measures aimed at making the marketing of UCITS in Europe…
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