The International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) held its forty-first Annual Conference in Lima (Peru), from 9 to 12 May 2016. Alongside the public sessions, the International Council of Securities Associations (ICSA) held its annual round o...
The new Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) came into effect on 3 July. After the last remaining Level 2 documents were released between March and June 2016, AMAFI published a briefing paper in mid-July on the main features of the new system (AMAFI / 16-32). AMAF...
La Commission européenne a rendu public le 10 février des projets de modification du dispositif MIF 2 permettant le report d’un an de son entrée en vigueur, initialement prévue pour le 3 janvier 2017. Ce report, qui doit encore...
The French government recently approved a draft legislative package (‘Sapin 2’) on transparency, the fight against corruption and economic modernisation. It incorporates numerous provisions relevant to financial market participants on which AMAFI was c...
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AMAFI remains heavily involved in efforts to transpose the MiFID 2 framework into French law and prepare Level 3 tools (ESMA guidance and FAQs). Level 2 implementing measures, however, have yet to be published. While it now seems to have been unofficially decided...
On 30 September 2015, the European Commission published an action plan containing 20 measures designed to build a single market for capital in Europe. In connection with this, it issued a call for evidence on the cumulative impact of financial legislation as it so...
On 13 January 2016, AMAFI published its Code of Best Practice for Euro PP Arrangers (AMAFI / 16-02). Prepared by a working group bringing together the main institutions operating as arrangers for euro private placement (Euro PP) deals, the code sets out best busin...
Following publication by ESMA of implementing measures for the Market Abuse Regulation in the form of technical standards (AMAFI / 15-51), AMAFI identified a number of questions that were discussed with AMF staff at a meeting organised in December. The aim was to...
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