As the clock ticks down to the application of MiCA (the markets in crypto-assets regulation, expected to apply across the EU from the end of 2024 (or slightly earlier in the case of stablecoins...

On 21 October 2025, ESMA published its final report containing conditions that it proposes AIFMs managing open-ended loan origination funds must take into account for the purposes of liquidity management (Final Report).

On 20 May 2026, the European Commission published a targeted consultation on the review of Regulation (“EU”) 2023/1114 on Markets in Crypto-Assets (“MiCA”).

The Central Bank published the latest edition of its Solvency II Matters newsletter on 27 May 2015.

The fast and challenging pace of EU sustainable finance policy continued last week with the publication of a Commission consultation on revisions to SFDR.

The announcement by the Minister for Education, Norma Foley, last week that errors in the code used to build software to calculate Leaving Certificate grades has caused a miscalculation

The Investment Funds, Companies and Miscellaneous Provisions Acts 2006 (the "2006 Act") became law on 24 December 2006.

Regulations transposing the second Shareholders' Rights Directive EU/2017/828 ("SRD II")1 into Irish law have now been published and will come into effect on 30 March 2020.

On 22 July 2011, ESMA issued a discussion paper setting out policy orientations on possible guidelines for structured UCITS.

The European Commission has published its strategy for the Savings and Investments Union (SIU), outlining its plans for how to channel savings to the ‘right' investments (e.g. investments designed to address challenges.

Foreign investors and multinationals predict they will invest an estimated USD$7.5BN in their Irish operations over the next three years, creating 20,000 new jobs.

DORA entered into force on 16 January 2023, creating a European regulatory framework to strengthen the financial sector's resilience to information and communication technology ("ICT") disruptions and threats.

Prior to the enactment of the Finance Act 2010, Irish regulated funds were required to deduct exit tax when making a payment to an investor unless the funds were in possession of a declaration by the investor to the effect that the investor is either not resident or ordinarily resident in Ireland for tax purposes (non-resident declarations or "NRDs") or is an exempt Irish investor.

In this update, we explain the application process to establish an investment firm in Ireland under MiFID.

The Irish Minister for Finance presented Budget 2019 to the Dáil, the Irish Parliament, on 9 October 2019.