25 September 2015 | Warning | The Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) updates the list of unauthorised websites offering binary options trading The AMF is publishing a new updated list of websites offering binary options trading, for which no authorised investment services provider could be clearly identified.… The Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) updates the list of unauthorised websites offering … options trading … The Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) is once again warning retail investors against … www.zeoption.com www.zoomoption.com (*) This website has also been the subject of a decision by the … |
24 September 2015 | News | Capital Markets Union: facilitating corporate financing In the coming weeks, European regulatory news will likely be dominated by the European Commission's first proposals regarding the Capital Markets Union. We interviewed Guillaume Eliet, Deputy Managing Director of the Autorité des Marchés Financiers, about the Union and the AMF's recommendations for facilitating corporate financing.… Union: facilitating corporate financing … What does the AMF see as the main goal, the unifying theme of the Capital … of easing up on investor protections. For example, the AMF believes it is necessary to protect the fundamental role … Capital Markets Union page on the European Commission website In the coming weeks, European regulatory news will … |
18 September 2015 | AMF news release | Claire Castanet appointed Executive Director of the AMF Retail Investor Relations Directorate Claire Castanet will lead the Retail Investor Relations Directorate starting 1 October 2015. She succeeds Natalie Lemaire, who is leaving the AMF after holding the position for five years. Natalie Lemaire will join BNP Paribas as the Compliance Division's international head of client interests.… Claire Castanet appointed Executive Director of the AMF Retail Investor Relations Directorate … pic Claire … a year later became the Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF). She started off in Human Resources development and in … supervising the orderly operation of markets. Visit our website www.amf-france.org. … Press Contact … AMF … |
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17 September 2015 | Report / study | Asset management: key figures 2014 - Profile of management companies Staff numbers reported by licensed asset management companies amounted to 15,531 people as on 31 December 2014, a return to historical highs. Asset management in France offers professional opportunities that are maintained over time. But staff numbers vary depending on the nature of the parties involved: type of shareholding, size, etc. Focus on…… representing a 3.3% increase from 2013. pic Source: AMF This result is due to a significant and combined increase … the landscape of asset management companies. pic Source: AMF Entrepreneurial management companies Between 2010 and … analysis > Savings & services providers section of the AMF website. The key figures cover the following topics: overview … |
16 September 2015 | Warning | The Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) warns about persons using its name and logo and impersonating the Ombudsman and her deputy Savers have alerted the AMF to messages received about an alleged partnership between the regulator and a law firm, J & B Groupe, offering to help them recoup money invested in fraudulent investment schemes.… The Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) warns about persons using its name and logo and … and forwarded to the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF), the regulator has purportedly set up a partnership, … to contribute financially to it. The AMF recalls that its website can be accessed at http://www.amf-france.org. If … |
14 September 2015 | Report / study | Asset management, key figures 2014 - Management companies overview At 31 December, 2014, the number of authorised asset management companies (AMCs) in France stood at 634. This was a new record. The trend for the current year suggests that, except for a major event in the second half of the year, this record will again be broken by the end of 2015. But is this really such good news?… of the assets of French AIFs, submitted information to the AMF. A focus on some of the salient points from these reports … monitoring of the third party asset management sector, the AMF uses annual information sheets provided by the asset … & analysis > Savings & services section of the AMF website. Future key figures shall cover the following topics: … |
07 September 2015 | Warning | The Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) updates the list of unauthorised websites offering binary options trading The AMF is publishing a new updated list of websites offering binary options trading, for which no authorised investment services provider could be clearly identified.… The Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) updates the list of unauthorised websites offering … options trading … The Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) is once again warning retail investors against … www.zeoption.com www.zoomoption.com (*) This website has also been the subject of a decision by the … |
30 July 2015 | AMF news release | The AMF publishes a guide on the relevance, consistency, and readability of the financial statements published by listed companies The guide, created by the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF), aims to support listed companies in preparing their financial statements. It contains tips intended to improve the content and presentation of information, illustrated by examples of good practice. Moreover, it contains the key points in the working method applied by AMF teams when…… The AMF publishes a guide on the relevance, consistency, and … in recent years, the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF), the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), … supervising the orderly operation of markets. Visit our website www.amf-france.org. … Press contact … AMF … |
24 July 2015 | AMF news release | The Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) is strengthening its policy on the obligations of discretionary portfolio management with respect to retail clients Its policy is being strengthened in order to improve investor protection and the supervision of asset managers' practices with respect to discretionary portfolio management for retail clients. The changes made to position-recommendation DOC-2007-21 in particular concern the resumption of certain principles already applied to collective investment…… The Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) is strengthening its policy on the obligations of … portfolio management with respect to retail clients … The AMF is adopting policy elements already applicable in the … supervising the orderly operation of markets. Visit our website www.amf-france.org . … Press contact … AMF … |
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