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The EU prospectus regime is designed to harmonise the requirements for the drawing up, approval and distribution of prospectuses when securities are offered to the public or admitted to trading on a regulated market.

The clarity provided by the Delegated Directive in respect of fees and inducements will be welcome for market participants in ensuring that anything that is provided is in accordance with the requirements.

ESMA clarifies in the Opinion that when a trading venue is operating a FBA system and it begins the auction process, as soon as a potential match has been identified, the pre-trade transparency requirements will apply.

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

Following a consultation, on 5 June 2020, ESMA published a final report and Guidelines on Certain Aspects of the MIFID II Compliance Function Requirements (the "Guidelines").

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.

The Central Bank of Ireland (the "Central Bank") has completed the update of the statutory instrument that forms the basis for the Irish regulatory framework for UCITS.

In the latest episode of Billions to air on Netflix, Axe Capital's CIO Taylor Mason proposes launching an entirely new strategy emblazoned with ‘ESG' on the cover of the slide deck.

On 20 October 2016, the Irish Minister for Finance published the Finance Bill 2016. The Finance Bill includes proposed changes to section 110 of the Irish Taxes Consolidation Act, 1997 ("section 110"), the primary tax legislation governing the treatment of Irish securitisation and structured finance companies.

Ireland continues to lead the way in offering innovative financial services solutions for investment structures.

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.

The related Irish Securitisation Regulations were published on 18 January 2019.

During the period 1 October 2017 to 31 December 2017, the Central Bank published the Twentieth and the Twenty-First Edition of the Central Bank UCITS Question & Answers ("Q&A").

Following on from a consultation process that took place in mid-2020, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published in December 2020...

On 29 January 2021, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published a consultation paper on draft guidelines regarding certain aspects of the MiFID II...

In its draft ‘no-deal Brexit' omnibus legislation (the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2019).

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

The European Securities and Markets Authority has recently issued a Q&A document to give further clarity to certain aspects of its guideline document published on December 18th, 2012 in relation to ETFs and other UCITS issues.