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ESMA warns fund managers to improve readiness for future adverse shocks
17 November 2020 France
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

ESMA has told fund managers to improve readiness for future adverse shocks in its latest report‘Recommendation of the European Systemic Risk Board on liquidity risk in investment funds’

ESMA publishes first reports on CSDR implementation
11 November 2020 France
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

ESMA has published its first two reports on the implementation of CSDR

ESMA set to delay MiFID II calculations in preparation for no-deal Brexit
10 November 2020 Brussels
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

ESMA has revealed that it will suspend the publication of essential calculations of MiFID II as part of preparation plans for a no-deal Brexit

INDOS Financial selected for AIFMD depositary services
30 October 2020 London
Reporter: Becky Bellamy

Triple Point Energy Efficiency Infrastructure Company has picked INDOS Financial for Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive depositary services

EC agrees to new CSDR delay until 2022
23 October 2020 Brussels
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The settlement discipline regime, which was originally due to go into force in September, will now come into effect on 1 February 2022

ESMA confirms recognition of three UK CCPs post Brexit
30 September 2020 London
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

LCH, ICE Clear Europe, and LME Clear will be eligible to provide services in the EU after the end of the transition period following the withdrawal of the UK from the EU

ESMA publishes draft rules for third country firms under MiFID II
28 September 2020 Brussels
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

ESMA has published draft regulatory and implementing technical standards for third-country firms under MiFIR and MiFID II regimes

Opinion: the new norm
21 September 2020 London
Reporter: Guest Writer: Tony Freeman

Consultant Tony Freeman discusses the new norm of working from home and its effect on operational risk

Opinion: AIFMD Review
07 September 2020 London
Reporter: Guest Writer: Tony Freeman

At first glance, last week’s publication of a letter about AIFMD from ESMA to the EC doesn’t seem like big news. Isn’t AIFMD a somewhat obscure piece of legislation that is a minority interest? Not really

ESMA selects CCP Supervisory Committee members
02 September 2020 Brussels
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Following an open selection process, the board of supervisors has submitted its selected candidates to the European Parliament

CSDR SDR: firms that use delay to improve internal infrastructure to be biggest winners
02 September 2020 London
Reporter: Becky Bellamy

Karan Kapoor, head of regulatory change and technology at Delta Capita, suggested the key will be to make settlement efficiency improvement a joint objective for front-office and operations teams

INDOS suggests AIFMD progress has been ‘scant’
01 September 2020 London
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

INDOS Financial has called on ESMA to address a number of omissions in the EU’s Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive