By Nick Bayley (pictured), Duff & Phelps – Unsurprisingly, even a MiFID II geek like me prefers to spend time enjoying the Lions tour and Wimbledon than with the FCA’s second MiFID II Policy Statement which runs to over a thousand pages, including the Handbook text. Much work is still
Collas Crill has advised Freedom Select Funds PCC Limited (FSF) on its conversion to Guernsey’s new Private Investment Fund (PIF) regime. FSF is managed by Freedom Asset Management Limited (FAML) and was established as a registered closed-ended fund in 2016. The Collas Crill team, including group partner Paul Wilkes
By George Ralph (pictured), RFA – 2017 is as good a time as any to be starting a new alternative investment firm, certainly better than it would have been a decade ago, but there are some key areas of focus that start-ups should be on top of. Here are some
By Daniel Viola, Sadis & Goldberg – In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, Congress passed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the Dodd-Frank Act), overhauling the financial regulatory system. Congress required the US Securities & Exchange Commission (the SEC) and the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (the CFTC)
By George Ralph (pictured), RFA Financial Cloud and Technology Services – It’s a widely held misconception that heavily regulated industries are the least agile, and the slowest to innovate. In the financial services sector particularly, there is a tendency to see compliance and responsibility as a barrier to success, when
By George Ralph (pictured), RFA Financial Cloud and Technology Services – The global financial crisis and subsequent recession happened almost a decade ago, but their legacy goes on and on, with more stringent regulations and bigger fines every year. The financial services sector has to comply, whilst also trying to
The final regulations of MiFID II announced today are likely to lose brokers business, analysts their jobs and also hit fund managers’ profits says Cleveland & Co Associates, the boutique legal advisory business. Among the new regulations of MiFID II, which are due to come into effect in January 2018,
SteelEye, the compliance technology and data analytics firm, has appointed Matt Smith (pictured), a highly-experienced regulatory tech specialist, as its new Chief Executive Officer. Smith’s appointment is aimed at helping drive the firm’s growth as it markets its secure and scalable data storage platform which incorporates best-in-class analytics. The SteelEye
Regulatory reporting has become a critical component of running an alternative investment fund. This requires well-developed data sourcing and data management processes to help ensure that fund managers remain compliant. Until a few years ago, there were no formal regulatory reporting requirements on the part of alternative investment managers. Following
Indus Valley Partners (IVP), a provider of services and solutions to alternative asset managers, has launched a new regulatory filing service for the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II). The new service forms part of the overall regulatory reporting platform known as IVP RAPTOR. MiFID II will
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