By deploying the most ambitious regulatory framework in the world, in order to support the European Green Deal, has the European Union achieved its objectives? Given the climate crisis, social inequalities and geopolitical instability that are transforming our world, financial institutions can play a key role.

Private debt in emerging markets is a powerful asset class to add resilience, impact and diversification to an investment portfolio though it may be daunting for investors to access and understand. David Grimaud, Chief Executive Officer of Symbiotics Asset Management, explains why in this insightful article.

The African Exchanges Linkage Project (AELP) has gone live in November 2022 allowing interconnexion between the 7 participating African stock exchanges in South Africa, Nigeria, Morocco, Egypt, Kenya, Côte d’Ivoire, and Mauritius, for cross-border trading.*

The 2018 Sustainable Finance Action Plan has been translated into ambitious regulations. As their implementation period starts, efforts made by the industry are considerable. But will this bear fruit in the long term? Asset managers stand between enthusiasm, scepticism and fear of greenwashing. Laetitia Hamon, Head of Sustainable Finance, Luxembourg Stock...

Today, investment managers must consider ESG before selecting an investment. If the concept seems obvious, turning the theory into practice becomes a tremendous challenge, both for UCITS* and alternative funds.

After the Council, which voted last December to amend the European Commission's (EC) proposal, it is up to Parliament (EP) to formalise its vision of the future CSDR Refit*.

The Pilot Regime comes into force in a few days’ time on Thursday, 23 March.

In recent years, we have seen a significant increase in the importance of CSR issues within the finance industry, driven by the urgency of certain major challenges such as climate change and the decline in biodiversity, as well as an awareness of the levers we have as investors and the potential for value creation within the companies in which we invest.

For a long time, the European Commission (EC) has intended to increase sustainable finance growth, by encouraging investments considering specific Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) criteria. In 2018, three legislative proposals were published, aiming at creating a European Union (EU) sustainable finance taxonomy, enhancing transparency on sustainable...

Payments in EURO on the TARGET 2, EURO1/STEP1 payment systems will be required to adopt the new SWIFT ISO20022 standard as of 20 March 2023. The SWIFT ISO 20022 standard thus becomes the new defined standard for financial messages, in particular payment messages, which will be deployed between March 2023 and November 2025 (due to the delayed start announced in...

The World Economic Forum (WEF) was held as every year in January at the famous Swiss ski resort of Davos. Switzerland, the world's most innovative country* according to the World Intellectual Property Organisation, is the ideal place to host such a forum. The Davos summit brings together the key decision-makers in the global economy to review the...

On the 15 February 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission adopted rule changes to shorten the standard settlement cycle for most broker-dealer transactions in securities from two business days after the trade date (T+2) to one (T+1).

The AMF proposes that the European Commission introduce in European law minimum environmental standards that financial products should meet to be categorised “Article 9” or “Article 8” under SFDR*.

Secondo l’amministratore delegato, con il ritorno di volatilità, tassi e inflazione assume ancora più rilevanza il ruolo dell’asset servicer provider come abilitatore dell’innovazione nell’industria del risparmio. “Obiettivi e linee di sviluppo non cambiano: fondamentale la capacità di evolvere insieme ai clienti”, afferma.

The Spanish settlement process is on the cusp of another reform, underpinned by the latest Securities Law which removes the post trade interface.