by Emma Cleveland | 2018-11-01 | Our Thinking
For 2019, ESMA’s focus will include supervisory convergence work in the area of Prospectus and Securitisation Regulation. The continued implementation of MiFID II and MiFIR will be a point of focus, whilst ESMA will also work on the third-country regime under MiFIR...
by Emma Cleveland | 2018-10-31 | Industry News
A project to enhance the electronic execution of documents came out of the Law Commission’s 13th Programme of Law Reform in January 2018. Subsequently, a consultation paper was published on 21 August 2018 and the Law Commission is requesting feedback on certain...
by Emma Cleveland | 2018-10-30 | Industry News
On 2 October 2018, the Financial Conduct Authority’s (“FCA”) Chair, Charles Randell, delivered a speech on the damaging cycle of deregulation, crisis and regulation (the “Speech”) at the annual Association for Financial Markets in Europe (“AFME”) conference, and...
by Emma Cleveland | 2018-10-18 | Industry News
On 1 November 2018, the European Securities and Markets Authority (“ESMA”) added three new questions and answers to its Q&A (the “Q&A”) on the Market Abuse Regulation (“MAR”). The purpose of the Q&A is to provide clarity on the practical application of MAR...
by Emma Cleveland | 2018-10-04 | Industry News
The Investment Association (the “IA”) have recently published their annual asset management survey for 2017-2018 (the “Survey”), which is now in its sixteenth year. The survey captures asset management undertaken by members of the IA on behalf of domestic and overseas...
