Ireland's EU Council Presidency has launched a legislative-political agenda for the financial services sector, prioritizing competitiveness, simplification, and strategic resilience aligned with the Draghi and Letta reports. The program shifts EU financial market regulation from post-crisis risk reduction toward capital market deepening and digital sovereignty, with binding delivery commitments and timelines through year-end 2026.

The EU Council confirmed this afternoon that trilogue negotiations have successfully completed on planned changes to the Central Securities Depositories Regulation (CSDR).

The European Commission ("Commission") has mandated the European Securities and Markets Authority ("ESMA") to provide technical advice on the review of the UCITS...

The recommendations come amidst the continuing fallout from the collapse of Wirecard in June 2020.

The Settlement Discipline Regime is part of the third phase of the implementation of the Central Securities Depositories Regulation. Following some delays, it is currently scheduled to come into force on 1 February 2022.

EU Regulation No 236/2012 on short selling and certain aspects of credit default swaps (the "Short Selling Regulation") will be fully applicable on 1 November 2012.

A securitisation repository centrally collects and maintains the records of securitisations.

From today, 28 May 2024, the US settlement cycle for trades in securities moved from T+2 to T+1. The move by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), signposted in February 2023, resulted...

In a slightly surprising move, eleven member states agreed on 9 October, 2012 to adopt a financial transactions tax (FTT).

The European Securities and Markets Authority has recently issued a questions and answers paper on its guidelines on exchange traded funds and other issues relating to undertakings for collective investment in transferable securities.

In December 2021, the Irish Takeover Panel (the "Panel") released a public consultation paper seeking comments on proposed amendments to the...

The European Securities and Markets Authority’s Guidelines on ETFs and other UCITS issues come into effect today, 18 February 2013.

The Companies Act 2014 (the "Act") came into operation on 1 June 2015 and has introduced significant reforms in company law in Ireland.

The European Securities and Markets Authority issued an updated Q&A document to give further clarity to certain aspects of its guideline document.

Yesterday, 4 September 2018, the Central Bank of Ireland (the "Central Bank") published a letter to industry setting out its findings of a thematic review undertaken on the payment of performance fees

From 21 December, prospectuses for securities qualifying as green bonds ("European Green Bonds") must be submitted for approval pursuant to the Prospectus Regulation.

Finance and Capital Markets partner Richard Kelly gives an update on negotiating derivatives with Irish UCITS for the Futures and Derivatives Law Report.

Regulatory authorities in Ireland and the UK have begun to adopt a more aggressive stance on legal professional privilege in the context of regulatory investigations.

Effective 1 January 2019, the Irish Stock Exchange plc, trading as Euronext Dublin ("Euronext Dublin")

The European Single Access Point (ESAP) Regulation introduces new procedural obligations for issuers of securities in Ireland, requiring parallel submission of prospectus, transparency, and market abuse information...