The consultation launched by the European Markets Authority (ESMA) in the winter of 2023 provided an opportunity for the European regulator to propose a wide range of possible changes to the penalty regime, ranging from a simple change in the rates applied to complete overhauls of the system through the simple or convex introduction of progressive rates,...

On 10 December 2024, the Council of Europe adopted a directive with new rules for withholding tax procedures (FASTER).

At the request of the management company Ofi Invest AM and the insurer Generali France, Societe Generale participated, from April to November 2024, in the projects led by the Banque de France and the European Central Bank (ECB) concerning the use of a wholesale Central Bank Digital Currency (wCBDC), i.e. “exploratory” euro cash tokens, for the settlement of...

While ESMA's preliminary report published last March suggested a potential move to T+1, the final report, available since November 18, 2024, leaves no room for the conditional. Not only is the move to T+1 in Europe now a fact, but it also even has a date (admittedly, this is only a proposal from the regulator; to become official, it will have to go through a...

The European Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2024/2759 (the “Delegated Regulation”) containing the European Long-Term Investment Fund (ELTIF) regulatory technical standards (RTS) has been published in the Official Journal of the European Union on 25 October 2024.

Shortening the settlement cycle is a recurring process – veteran bankers will remember the arrival of D+5 in France in the 1990s, replaced by D+3 and then T+2 in 2014. Such a shift is natural, and it follows the industry’s progress in automation, rationalization, and harmonization. So how is this new iteration such a big challenge?

The migration to ISO 20022 of the payment ecosystem continues to gain momentum worldwide.

At present, the Shareholders’ Rights Directive (SRD2) has not been fully convincing: electronic retail voting at general meetings (GAs) is still a long way off.

AIFMD II provides clarifications expected by Alternative Investment Fund Management (AIFM) managers regarding the AIFM passport regime regulating the issuance of loans across the EU. The new Directive establishes common rules for the granting of loans, covering the management of conflicts of interest, credit risk management and risk diversification according...

In 2024, a new directive will come into force – the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD). Signed on 21 June 2022 and approved by the European Parliament in November 2022, the CSRD is replacing the NFRD (Non-Financial Reporting Directive) to establish new non-financial reporting standards and obligations.

Three years after the launch of the review process, the amended version of CSDR , known as CSDR Refit in reference to the eponymous European Commission's programme , came into force on 16 January 2024, 20 days after it was published in the Official Journal of the European Union.

A partire dal 28 maggio 2024 il ciclo di regolamento standard statunitense per la maggior parte delle transazioni di broker-dealer in titoli sarà ridotto a un giorno lavorativo dopo la data di negoziazione (T+1).

Anticipating CSDR Refit and its obligation to produce a report detailing the timeliness, costs and benefits and modalities of implementing a T+1 settlement cycle, ESMA conducted during Fall 2023 a consultation on shortening the settlement cycle in Europe.

What are the main changes or impacts for the AIFM?

As of 28 March 2024, as part of its digitisation project, ROSA becomes the new Products repository of the French Markets Authority (AMF) replacing the GECO interface.