Investment Firms Quarterly Legal and Regulatory Update (Q2) April -June 2019

Areas covered in this quarterly update include;

1. MiFID II - European Developments

2. Capital Requirements Directive IV / V / CRR / CRR II

3. Packaged Retail Insurance-based Investment Products (“PRIIPs”)

4. European Markets Infrastructure Regulation (“EMIR”)

5. Securitisation Regulation

6. European Venture Capital Funds (“EuVECA”) Regulation and European Social Entrepreneurship Funds (“EuSEF”) Regulation

7. The Securities Financing Transactions Regulation (“SFTR”)

8. Benchmarks Regulation

9. Global Legal Entity Identifier System (“GLEIS”)

10. Shareholder’s Rights Directive (“SRD II”)

11. European Fund and Asset Management Association (“EFAMA”)

12. European Commission

13. European Parliament

14. ESMA, EBA and ESAs

15. Financial Stability Board (“FSB”)

16. Market Abuse Regulation (“MAR”)

17. Transparency Directive

18. Prospectus Regulation

19. Central Bank of Ireland

20. Euronext (formerly the Irish Stock Exchange (“ISE”))

21. Anti-Money Laundering (“AML”) / Counter-Terrorist Financing (“CTF”)

22. Anti-Corruption Legislation & Law Reform

23. Data Protection / General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”)

24. The International Swaps and Derivatives Association (“ISDA”)

25. Brexit

26. Sustainable Finance

27. Irish Property Funds

28. Irish Investment Limited Partnerships (Amendment) Bill 2019

To download our Investment Firms Quarterly Legal and Regulatory Update for the period April to June 2019 click on the Download PDF link above.

If you have any questions in relation to the content please do not hesitate to contact your usual contact in Dillon Eustace.