On 23 October 2017, the Dutch Minister of Finance sent the following documents to the Dutch Parliament (Tweede Kamer):
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published an updated version of its Q&As document on prospectuses.
The purpose of the Q&As is to promote common supervisory approaches and practices in the application of the Prospectus Directive (PD) and its implementing measures. It does this by providing responses to questions
The Presidency of the Council of the EU has published a short issues note ahead of the ECOFIN meeting on 7 November 2017. The note concerns the review of the European System of Financial Supervision (ESFS) and the legislative proposals that the European Commission has published.
In the note the Presidency invites Ministers
On 19 October 2017, the Dutch Minister of Finance published a first draft of the Decree implementing Directive (EU) 2016/97 on insurance distribution (the IDD) (Besluit implementatie richtlijn verzekeringsdistributie, the Implementation Decree) for consultation.
The Implementation Decree, together with the Act implementing the IDD (Wet implemenatie richtlijn verzekeringsdistributie), will
A recent Norton Rose Fulbright legal update on proposed regulations issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) may be of interest to readers of the Financial services: Regulation Tomorrow blog.
“SEC proposes Regulation S-K amendments to implement FAST Act mandate,” by Charles E. Hord III, discusses proposed amendments to Regulation S-K
The FCA has published Handbook Notice No. 48.
In this Handbook Notice the FCA briefly describes the changes that have been made to the FCA Handbook by the following instruments:
The House of Commons’ Treasury Committee has launched a new inquiry into the UK’s economic relationship with the EU. The inquiry will consider, among other things, transitional arrangements, preparedness for ‘no deal’, and long-term economic relationship.
The first evidence session of the inquiry will take place on 25 October with Sir Ivan Rogers (former Permanent
The European Commission has adopted a Delegated Regulation supplementing the Capital Requirements Regulation with regard to regulatory technical standards (RTS) for the materiality threshold for credit obligations past due.
The RTS specify the conditions according to which a Member State competent authority (NCAs) shall set the threshold for the materiality of
Nicholas Berry, a partner in London and Chris Sandilands, a partner from Oxbow Partners, present a video series on InsurTech.
Nicholas Berry, a partner in London and Chris Sandilands, a partner from Oxbow Partners, present a video series on InsurTech.