Regulatory notices

The French financial market supervisor (AMF) published yesterday a proposal for minimum environmental standards for financial products belonging to the Art.9 and 8 categories of the SFDR in the context of the revision of this regulation.

Last Friday 3 February 2023, the FCA addressed a letter to the CEOs of the asset management, custody and fund services as well as alternatives reminding its expectations on the new Customer Duty as well as its relevant implementation deadlines.

On 3 February 2023, ESMA updated its Q&A on the application of the UCITS Directive.

A new question has been added on the General section, in particular on the Question 5 on issuer concentration.

The Belgian Financial securities and Markets Authority published yesterday an update of its supervisory fees for 2023.

On Tuesday 31st of January 2023, ESMA launched a Consultation on the review of the methodology included in the Guidelines on stress test scenarios under the MMF Regulation.

In the context of the ESAs call of evidence on greenwashing published in November 2022, the Securities and Markets Stakeholder Group provided ESMA with advises.

The Austrian Financial Market supervisory authority published at the beginning of this month its annual supervisory fees applicable in 2023.

Today, the SFC published a couple of slides of workshops on ESG fund regulations held in March 2022 and on 12 January 2023.

ESMA launched a common supervisory action (CSA) with national competent authorities (NCAs) on the application of MiFID II disclosure rules with regard to marketing communications across the European Union (EU). This CSA will be conducted over the course of 2023.