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Changes in the Irish Asset Management Landscape.

Following on from our previous updates on the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive ("CSRD"), the Delegated Act adopting the European Sustainability Reporting Standards ("ESRS")...

EU collective investment schemes such as retail alternative investment funds and UCITS often need specialised support to get a foothold in certain markets.

This CLOser Look focuses on the implications of the recent regulatory developments on the CLO market in particular.

The Central Bank of Ireland has published an Industry Communication clarifying the filing procedure for UCITS and AIFs to comply with upcoming pre-contractual documentation update requirements.

The FAQs cover items including due diligence, outsourcing and administration of the individual questionnaire.

CLO Update: When implementing MiFID II, Ireland will broadly maintain the existing ‘safe harbour' for non-EEA firms providing investment services into Ireland on a cross-border basis to per se professional clients...

On 15 May 2017 the Central Bank of Ireland ("Central Bank") published the UCITS question and answers ("Q&As") 17th Edition. A new question ID1076 on how a UCITS management company or a self-managed investment company should submit details of its designated email address to the Central Bank is included.

The Central Bank requires all regulated financial service providers to file an annual PCF confirmation return in respect of each active PCF holder within the RFSP confirming that he / she is compliant with the Fitness and Probity Standards and continues to agree to abide by those Standards.

The IOSCO consultation report, published on 6 April 2022, represents the output of a five-year long collaboration between regulators of major global ETF domiciles focussed on two broad themes...

The European Union (Information Accompanying Transfers of Funds) Regulations 2025 (S.I. No. 310/2025) have been published and entered into force on 1 August 2025.

The Central Bank has confirmed that there will be a fast-track filing process for prospectus updates on foot of the Sustainable Finance Disclosures Regulation ("SFDR") and the deadline for such filings will be 1 December 2022.

In 2022, we expect a greater volume of green finance and sustainability-linked loans as banks continue to deliver on their core values and sustainability commitment.

Walkers' Ireland Regulatory Partners Shane Martin and Niall Esler spoke with Kathy Jacobs of the Compliance Institute on key recent and upcoming developments in Anti-Money...

A similar scheme was set up by the financial conduct authority in January 2014.

Following CP138 and the publication at the end of 2022 of the Central Bank of Ireland's final Guidance on Outsourcing, Irish regulated firms now need to evaluate...

With the intention of promoting greater issuance and encouraging investment in a more robust market for asset backed securities, Europe's new regime of simple, transparent and standardised securitisations has had a tentative start ...