Tag:United Kingdom

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Europe: FCA Amends Opening Date for Registration of New UCITS Schemes Under UK Overseas Fund Regime
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Europe: Updated FCA Guidance on Registration for the UK Overseas Funds Regime
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Europe: European Commission Adopts Delegated Regulations for ELTIF 2.0 and Rejects Key Changes Proposed by ESMA
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Europe: FCA Issues Final UK Overseas Funds Regime Rules
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Europe: UK FCA’s Anti-Greenwashing Rule and Guidance Come Into Force on 31 May 2024
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Europe: New Funds May Apply for UK Overseas Fund Regime Recognition from September 2024
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Europe: Research Cost Re-Bundling – Is the UK Going Back to the Future?
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Europe: Why Are Firms Currently Focusing on Derivatives Post Trade Reporting?
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EUROPE: UK’s Overseas Funds Regime Moves a Step Closer with Confirmation that Most EEA UCITS Will Be Deemed Equivalent
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Europe: ESMA Publishes Long-Awaited Final Report on ELTIF 2.0 Regulatory Technical Standards

Europe: FCA Amends Opening Date for Registration of New UCITS Schemes Under UK Overseas Fund Regime

By: Emma O’Dwyer, Aoife Maguire, and Gayle Bowen

The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority has put back the opening date for the application gateway for recognition of new UCITS schemes (i.e. those schemes not already registered under the Temporary Marketing Permissions Regime) under the OFR.

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Europe: Updated FCA Guidance on Registration for the UK Overseas Funds Regime

By: Emma O’Dwyer, Aoife Maguire, and Hazel Doyle

On 12 August 2024, the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority released updated information on its website page on the Overseas Funds Regime (OFR). It provides details on how UCITS management companies (Operators) can register for FCA Connect – which is the first step for any Operator looking to register funds under the OFR. See our previous OFR-related blogs for more information on the OFR.

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Europe: European Commission Adopts Delegated Regulations for ELTIF 2.0 and Rejects Key Changes Proposed by ESMA

By: Gayle Bowen and Shane Geraghty

The European Commission (EC) has adopted the long awaited ELTIF 2.0 Delegated Regulation (RTS). Its version rejects a number of key proposals previously introduced by ESMA. In particular, the EC has returned to its original versions of Annex I and Annex II, with minor amendments.

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Europe: FCA Issues Final UK Overseas Funds Regime Rules

By: Kai Zhang, Philip J. Morgan, Andrew J. Massey, and Hazel Doyle

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published its final rules for the UK’s Overseas Funds Regime (OFR) (see our prior blogs here and here which discuss eligibility and the expected OFR launch timetable).

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Europe: UK FCA’s Anti-Greenwashing Rule and Guidance Come Into Force on 31 May 2024

By: Philip Morgan, Andrew Massey, and Omega Modi

An anti-greenwashing rule comes into force in the UK on 31 May 2024. This is the first part of the FCA’s Sustainability Disclosure Requirements.

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Europe: New Funds May Apply for UK Overseas Fund Regime Recognition from September 2024

By: Áine Ní Riain, Aoife Maguire, Gayle Bowen, and Philip Morgan

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has released updated information and, together with HM Treasury, a “roadmap,” on the UK’s Overseas Funds Regime (OFR). It intends to accept applications from new funds (i.e. those not in the Temporary Marketing Permissions Regime (TMPR)) from September 2024. This is a welcome development for managers of new EEA UCITS that are not currently able to access the UK retail market.

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Europe: Research Cost Re-Bundling – Is the UK Going Back to the Future?

By: Andrew Massey, Philip Morgan, and Omega Modi

The UK’s FCA has published consultation paper 24/7: Payment optionality for investment research. It proposes a new, more flexible, way to charge third-party investment research to clients.

The new payment option would sit alongside the two existing options under which research costs are either paid by firms from their own resources or charged to clients through a research payment account. The latter approach has not been popular because of its operational complexities, so research has been an out-of-pocket expense for many UK asset managers.

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Europe: Why Are Firms Currently Focusing on Derivatives Post Trade Reporting?

By: Ron Feldman and Philipp Riedl

Deficiencies in compliance with derivatives post trade reporting rules have recently triggered regulator fines. Fin-FSA in Finland fined a pension fund €90K and the Central Bank of Ireland imposed the first fine on an investment fund, €192K. Although the fines are reasonably modest, they have sharpened industry focus on this issue.

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EUROPE: UK’s Overseas Funds Regime Moves a Step Closer with Confirmation that Most EEA UCITS Will Be Deemed Equivalent

By: Shane Geraghty, Aoife Maguire, Andrew Massey, Philip Morgan, and Courtney Hunter

The UK’s overseas funds regime has been in development for several years and is finally close to becoming a reality. It will create a more streamlined method by which non-UK funds given “equivalence” status may be marketed to UK retail investors.

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Europe: ESMA Publishes Long-Awaited Final Report on ELTIF 2.0 Regulatory Technical Standards

By: Gayle Bowen and Shane Geraghty

On 19 December, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published its final report setting out draft Regulatory Technical Standards under the amended European Long-Term Investment Funds Regulation.

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