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In December 2023, EMSA, launched a consultation to gather insights for the cost and benefits of the various approaches to revising the securitisation disclosure framework.

The publication of the European Commission's Work Programme 2025 today (12 February 2025) brought welcome clarity on the priority legislative files...

The investment landscape is changing at pace, with major themes such as sustainability, deglobalisation and demographic changes motivating investors to seek opportunities...

Following the decision of the UK to leave the EU, issuers of debt securities will need to re-consider their preferred market for listing purposes.

Counterparties to a repurchase transaction, a securities or commodities lending or borrowing transaction, a buy-sell back or sell-buy back transaction or a margin lending transaction.

As mentioned in our July 2017 Briefing (Prospectus Regime: PD3 Published), the new Prospectus Regulation (known as PD3), will apply across the EU from 21 July 2019.

The National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) now owns most of the real estate and development loans previously made by Irish banks.

ESMA, the EU securities regulator, has recommended to the European Commission that a look-through approach should be applied to all proposed UCITS investments...

The most important thing to realise about guarantees is that when it comes to payment, the liability of the guarantor will include the unpaid principal and the interest which continues to accrue at a compound rate of interest.

A number of weeks ago the Central Bank of Ireland (the CBI) published a revised guidance note (the Revised Guidance Note) which clarifies registration requirements for financial vehicle corporations (FVCs)....

On 8 February 2022, the Central Bank of Ireland (the "Central Bank") published its second annual Securities Markets Risk Outlook Report (the "Report").

Will ESMA be given certain direct supervision powers in relation to prospectuses, market abuse, product intervention and benchmarks.

In 2022, whilst the securitisation market across the European Union experienced the headwinds of economic change it also bore witness to further regulatory evolution.

The European Commission ("Commission") is required, under the terms of the AIFMD, to conduct a review of the operation of the directive.

The purpose of this publication is to identify and summarise the NFR requirements arising under the European Union Regulations 2017 from the perspective of Irish public limited companies listed on the NYSE/NASDAQ.

The ISE is the leading international exchange for the listing of investment funds. Its success is built on a specific investment funds listing regime tailored to a wide variety of international fund structures from all domiciles.

On 3 January 2022, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published a final report on guidelines on aspects of the appropriateness and execution-only requirements under Directive 2014/65/EU (MiFID II)...