Basic ESG and SFDR terms all Money Managers need to know
The SFDR was introduced by the European Commission, alongside the Taxonomy Regulation and the Low Carbon Benchmarks Regulation, as part of a package of legislative [...]
PRIIP KIDs are a go: what happens now?
At last, it's happening. Two years since consultations started — and over three years since the PRIIP regulation came into force — the European Commission [...]
Is SFDR simply recoloring old businesses with new names?
At the beginning of August 2021, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a milestone assessment that drew an “unequivocal” link between human [...]
The EC just published a finalised version of the PRIIPS KID
Asset Managers can now access a finalised version of the PRIIPS Key Information Document (KID), almost 2 years after the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) started [...]
4 potential areas of financial regulatory reform to keep an eye on in the UK
In June this year, the UK Government published a report by the Taskforce on Innovation, Growth, and Regulatory Reform to pinpoint potential areas of regulatory [...]
Are you certain you’re fully complying with MiFID II?
Asset managers have been living with MiFID II for close to a decade. But while that might seem like it's more than enough time to get [...]
A new EU directive will come into effect in August 2021. Here is what this will mean…
The EU Directive and Regulation, known as the “CBDF package”, or “the EU cross-border distribution of collective investment undertakings legislative package” was officially launched in [...]
Some UK firms may have to comply with the UK and EU climate-rules in parallel.
After much anticipation, the FCA published its consultation (CP21/17) on climate-related financial disclosures and rules for UK asset managers at the end of June. [...]
FCA gave UK non-complying asset managers up to 18 months to meet the reporting standards of their annual fees assessments
At the beginning of the year, the FCA reported that, of the 145 money managers in the UK, almost half failed to disclose their costs [...]
UK to extend the UCITS exemption by five years
At the beginning of June, HM Treasury confirmed in a press release that UCITS (Undertakings for the Collective Investment in Transferable Securities) funds will continue [...]