2,951 results found

Following industry consultation, including with the Irish Debt Securities Association, on 8th November, 2013 the Central Bank of Ireland issued an update to their Questions and Answers on the Alternative Investment Funds Managers Directive and the Commission Delegated Regulation No 231/2013 originally published in May of this year.

On 18 February 2015, the European Commission (the "Commission") published its Green Paper on Building a Capital Markets Union ("CMU") inviting contributions from all interested parties by 13 May 2015...

On 12 July 2013, the European Securities and Market Authority ("ESMA") published a discussion paper (the "Discussion Paper") on the clearing obligations applicable under the European Markets Infrastructure Regulation ("EMIR"), on which they are seeking stakeholder’s views on regulatory technical standards ("RTS") which will implement provisions of EMIR.

The Central Bank issued a statement today in response to the European Securities and Markets Supervisory Authority (ESMA) statement on 31 January 2019 addressing EMIR Refit implementation.

Banks and other financial institutions operate in a highly regulated environment. Issues frequently arise where an institution has breached a regulatory requirement but seeks to enforce its contractual rights.

European securities regulators are launching a comprehensive assessment of crypto-asset service providers' digital operational resilience, with a particular focus on custody activities and distributed ledger technology risks. The exercise will examine how firms manage critical areas including key storage, transaction controls, incident response, and third-party dependencies under the newly enforceable Digital Operational Resilience Act.

A UCITS may be established in Ireland as a single fund or as an umbrella fund comprising one or more sub-funds, each with a different investment objective and policy. UCITS are typically established as umbrella funds and the segregation of liability between sub-funds is achieved either by law (as is the case for an investment company or ICAV) or by contract. Each sub-fund may comprise different classes of units or shares. Typically, classes of units or shares are issued to allow for different fee arrangemen

The Central Bank today has published its feedback statement following the responses of stakeholders to its 2017 discussion paper.

On 29 March 2019, the European Securities and Markets Authority ("ESMA") published an updated questions and answers document ("Q&As") on the application of EU Directive 2009/65/EC

Following on from our July 2019 article on the Investment Limited Partnerships (Amendment) Bill 2019 (the "Bill") (link here), the Bill progressed to the next stage of the Irish legislative process

The Central Bank of Ireland published Consultation Paper 162 (CP162) on September 9, 2025, proposing important amendments to its AIF Rulebook that the private asset industry has been eagerly awaiting.

The Central Bank of Ireland has outlined the process through which revised Business Plans of authorised UCITS self-managed investment companies will be filed with the Central Bank.

On 2 June 2021, the Central Bank of Ireland (CBI) published its Annual Report 2020 & Annual Performance Statement 2020-2021 (Annual Report), together with its 2020 Report on Protected Disclosures (Disclosures Report).

On 3 February 2016, the Insurance Supervision Directorate of the Central Bank of Ireland (the "Central Bank") published its programme of themed inspections (the "Programme")...

By way of background, the plaintiff was the national agency which took over defaulting loans from the State’s banks.

Flynn & Anor v Breccia [2018] IECA 273; Sheehan v Breccia & Ors [2018] IECA 286