Category Archives: MiFID
ESMA’s Cunning Plan
Those who have whiled away a covid summer afternoon enjoying ESMA’s note to the European Commission on improvements to AIFMD ( esma_letter_on_aifmd_review ), will have formed the vaguest suspicion that despite its noises about Wirecard, it is really Woodford that …
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FCA Reviews
As FCA reveals its supervision plans, firms need to pre-empt No one can say they did not know it was coming. The FCA is getting ever more explicit about its immediate concerns and supervision plans. As we noted at New …
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Tagged in: ABC, AML, Assessment of value, asset management market study, Bribery, CASS, Client money, FCA, Governance, Independent Directors, Liquidity, MAR, market abuse, MiFID, Operational resilience, opting-up, senior managers regime, SMCR, UCITS
Happy New Decade
At the beginning will be Brexit. At the end will be Brexit. And in between it will mainly be Brexit. I hope that those remarks relate to 2020, not to the whole decade, but I am probably wrong. There will …
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Tagged in: Acquisition of research, Assessment of value, asset management market study, BREXIT, Engagement Policy, EU, FCA, FIIA, Independent Directors, investment research, Liquidity, MiFID, NURS, Passport, senior managers regime, SMCR, SRD II, UCITS, Woodford