On 27 March 2024, the Wolfsberg Group (Group) published Principles for Auditing Financial Crime Risk Management (FCRM) using the Wolfsberg Factors (Factors) which were published in 2019.
The Group notes that internal audit (IA), an independent function within a financial institution (FI), constitutes the third
On 27 March 2024, the European Commission (Commission) published a draft interpretive notice to provide clarity to market participants on the transitional provision of the MiFIR review.
Background
MiFIR contains provisions to ensure that EU markets in financial instruments are more transparent, work more efficiently and provide investors with an adequate level of
On 26 March 2024, the Council of the EU announced it had adopted the so-called Daisy Chain Directive which makes amendments to the Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive (BRRD) and the Single Resolution Mechanism Regulation (SRMR) as regards certain aspects of the minimum requirement for own funds and eligible liabilities (
On 26 March 2024, the Technology Working Group – an industry group established by the Government to examine the impact of technology on the UK’s investment management sector – published its second report, entitled ‘Further Fund Tokenisation: Achieving Investment Fund 3.0 Through Collaboration’.
The new report builds on the publication of the Group’s first
On 26 March 2024, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published finalised guidance (FG24/1) clarifying its expectations on how financial promotions should be communicated on social media by firms as well as others, such as influencers.
Background
The FCA consulted in 2023 on updated guidance for financial promotions on social media, following concerns that
On 26 March 2024, the European Commission (the Commission) published a Communication on the intention to adopt, with amendments, a Commission Delegated Regulation supplementing Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/760. The regulatory technical standards (RTS) in the proposed Commission Delegated Regulation specifies obligations of European long-term investment funds (ELTIFs) and their
On 26 March 2024, the European Parliament’s Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) published a report on the proposed Regulation amending Regulation (EU) No 1286/2014 as regards the modernisation of the key information document. The report sets out a draft European Parliament legislative resolution which makes amendments to the proposed Regulation.
On 26 March 2024, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) issued a consultation paper containing draft technical standards supplementing the EU Green Bond Regulation. The consultation paper is the first of two consultations planned by ESMA with the other set for Q1 2025.
The EU Green Bond Regulation lays down uniform requirements
On 26 March 2024, there was published in the Official Journal of the EU, Directive 2024/927 of 13 March 2024, amending the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive and the UCITS Directive as regards delegation arrangements, liquidity risk management, supervisory reporting, the provision of depository and custody services and loan origination by alternative investment funds.
On 25 March 2024, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published two final reports on its first set of regulatory technical standards (RTS) and implementing technical standards in relation to the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCAR). ESMA has also issued a consultation paper regarding its third set of