On 26 May 2025, the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) published a final report on revisions to its 2018 Recommendations for Liquidity Risk Management for Collective Investment Schemes. Overall, IOSCO is publishing a total of 17 recommendations under a revised structure with six sections, namely the CIS Design Process, Liquidity Management
In the latest in our series of Global Regulation Tomorrow podcasts focusing on the future of asset management regulation in the UK, Claire Guilbert, Uzmah Yunis and Anita Edwards discuss the key practical points firms should be considering following the Financial Conduct Authority’s recent consultation on implementing the Overseas Funds Regime and subsequent developments.
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On 30 January 2024, the Economic Secretary to the Treasury, Bim Afolami, announced in a statement to the House of Commons that HM Treasury (HMT) has reached a decision regarding the equivalence assessment for EEA states under the UK’s Overseas Funds Regime (OFR).
The Government legislated in the Financial Services Act
On 4 November 2021, the Investment Association published version 3.0 of its model discretional investment management agreement, in co-operation with Norton Rose Fulbright. The model agreement is a template agreement relating to the appointment of a discretionary investment manager by a client that has been categorised by the manager as a professional client. The
In order to sell their expertise to German institutional and retail investors, non-German asset managers must find ways to operate in the German investment market. This has become much more difficult under the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive. An attractive option is to cooperate with a German Master-KVG.
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The latest issue of Global Asset Management Quarterly is now available here.
In this issue we cover:
On August 2, 2017, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (“OCC”), which charters national banks, issued a press release and notice seeking comments proposing revisions to the regulations that implement the so-called “Volcker Rule” in order to “better accomplish the purposes” of the Rule. The Volcker Rule, enacted as part of the Dodd-Frank
On May 16, 2016, six federal regulatory agencies – the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Federal Housing Finance Agency, Federal Reserve Board, National Credit Union Administration, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Securities and Exchange Commission – announced that they were requesting comment on a proposed rule under Section 956 of the Dodd-Frank
The second issue of our Global Asset Management Quarterly is now available.
This publication highlights key developments that will be of interest to, and affect, our asset management clients, including market trends and developments in tax and buy-side regulation globally. Articles in this issue include those on US topics from David Barrett, Michael Flamenbaum
ICE Futures US (“ICE”) adopted a new rule, effective March 18, 2016, that provides relief from position limit aggregation requirements applicable to “owned entities.” Specifically, the rule amendment permits certain affiliated entities to disaggregate their positions for purposes of compliance with ICE’s position limits.
Background
ICE imposes spot-month position limits on all its futures contracts,