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Irish Quarterly Legal and Regulatory Report: Asset Management and Investment Funds January - March 2025
Welcome to the January - March 2025 issue of our Irish Quarterly Legal and Regulatory Developments report for asset management and investment funds. This report covers key dates and developments during the quarter, such as: AIFMD & UCITS updates including ESMA's latest common supervisory action with NCAs focusing on compliance and internal audit functions in fund management companies; Central Bank of Ireland developments, including significant new AIFMD Q&As, as well as its latest Regulatory and Supervisory Outlook Report outlining the key trends and risks moulding the operating landscape and the Central Bank's regulatory and supervisory priorities; and - Other regulatory developments on DORA, EMIR 3.0, proposals in the Commission's strategy for the Savings and Investment Union and on sustainability developments, the Commission's package of simplification measures focusing on sustainability reporting.
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Irish Asset Management & Investment Funds ESG Newsletter: October 2024 – January 2025
The Platform on Sustainable Finance has published its report on categorisation of products under SFDR ahead of the European Commission's proposal for review of the SFDR, expected in Q4 2025. ESMA released new Q&As providing welcome clarification on some of the key elements within its guidelines on fund names using ESG or sustainability-related terms.
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Irish Quarterly Legal and Regulatory Report: Asset Management and Investment Funds October - December 2024
Welcome to the October - December 2024 issue of our Irish Quarterly Legal and Regulatory Developments report for asset management and investment funds.
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Budget 2025 - Tax Highlights Ireland
Budget 2025 announced on 1 October 2024 included a substantial "cost-of-living" package including many one-off payments, as well as outlining a framework to direct substantial tax revenues towards housing, energy, water and transport infrastructure. The need to maintain Ireland's competitiveness in the face of intensifying competition for foreign direct investment was acknowledged, with tax code simplification at the forefront.
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Irish Quarterly Legal and Regulatory Report - Asset Management and Investment Funds January - March 2024
Welcome to the January – March 2024 issue of our Irish Quarterly Legal and Regulatory Developments report for Asset Management and Investment Funds. This report covers key developments during the quarter, such as: UCITS & AIFMD developments, including the publication of changes in cross-border notifications under AIFMD and the UCITS Directive...
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Transposition of Credit Servicers Directive in Ireland – Overview
On 29 December 2023, the Minister for Finance signed the European Union (Credit Servicers and Credit Purchasers) Regulations 2023 (the "Regulations") into law, thereby transposing the Directive on credit servicers and credit purchasers (Directive (EU) 2021/2167) (the "CSD") into Irish law, with effect from 30 December 2023. In keeping with the approach previously indicated by the Department of Finance, the Regulations confirm that the existing Irish domestic credit servicing regime (the "Domestic Regime") provided for under the Central Bank Act 1997 (as amended) (the "CBA 1997") will operate in parallel with the regime provided for by the Regulations (the "CSD Regime").
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