Joint Statement on Consolidated Tape and Market Data Costs
The Appropriate Construction of and Conditions for the usage of a Consolidated Tape
SPACs – Europlace working group on the attractiveness of the Paris financial centre
AMAFI is part of the Paris Europlace working group on the attractiveness of the Paris financial centre, whose aim is […]
CMU – European Supervisory Authorities
As part of the Capital Markets Union (CMU) reboot, the European Commission launched a consultation on supervisory convergence and the […]
ESMA issues a negative opinion on the AMF’s AMP on Liquidity Contracts
Writing in a press release, AMAFI expressed disappointment at the negative opinion recently published by the European Securities and Markets […]
Anti-money laundering
Annex to ACPR guidelines The ACPR has finalised and published the Annex on market transactions to its guidelines on KYC […]
Prudential regime for investment firms
Entry into application As our feature article shows (p 2), implementing Europe’s new regime for investment firms, which comprises the […]
ICSA interim meeting, 10 February 2021
The International Council of Securities Associations (ICSA) met in mid-February with Paul Andrews, Secretary General of the International Organization of […]
SFTR reporting obligation
On 13 July 2020 (cf. Financial Newsletter 41), the first phase of the obligation for investment firms and central counterparties […]
Investment firms: new prudential standards
The Regulation (IFR) and Directive (IFD) on the prudential requirements of investment firms published on 4 December 2019 will come into […]
Brexit
European Union (EU) on 24 December of last year. They are expected to be covered by equivalence decisions negotiated in […]
IOSCO Annual Meeting and ICSA meetings, 9-18 November 2020
The annual general meeting of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) was replaced by a series of virtual meetings […]
Brexit
Share trading obligation and derivatives trading obligation In late October ESMA published a statement clarifying the scope of the EU […]