01 January 2024 | Policy | Instruction DOC-2012-07 … clarifies the rules that investment services providers, financial investment advisers, real-estate investment trust … clarifies the rules that investment services providers, financial investment advisers, crowdfunding investment … function, including good knowledge of the professional’s products, services, contracts, tools and procedures; • … |
01 January 2024 | Policy | Position - Recommendation DOC-2006-23 … Questions and answers on the rules that apply to financial investment advisers … Other professionals … the activities that do and do not fall under the status of financial investment adviser, some of its requirements … surrounding direct marketing of banking or financial products for an advice service. … Textes de référence … … |
01 January 2024 | Policy | Instruction DOC-2019-24 … référence … Article D. 54-10-6 of the French Monetary and Financial Article 721-4 GR AMF Book 7 Instruction Digital … référence … Article D. 54-10-2 of the French Monetary and Financial Code (in French only) Article D. 54-10-6 of the … the AMF asks the applicant to use evaluated and certified products or to have security audits performed in application … |
01 January 2024 | Policy | Instruction DOC-2019-23 … L. 54-10-3 and D. 54-10-2 of the French Monetary and Financial Code (“MFC”), persons who provide custody services … allocated to each of these activities for the coming two financial years; - a description of the activities that the … the risks associated with clients, the nature of the products and services provided, the distribution channels … |
27 December 2023 | Warning | The AMF is warning the public against several companies proposing atypical investments without being authorised to do so The Autorité des Marchés Financiers regularly updates its black lists of new websites and entities proposing atypical investments to investors in France without being authorized to do so.… responsible for ensuring that savings invested in financial products are protected and that investors are provided with … |
22 December 2023 | AMF news release | Equity investment: intentions on the rise again, driven by young people The Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) has published the 7th edition of its Savings and Investment Barometer on investment trends. After the sharp fall seen in 2022, more retail investors are planning to invest in equities in 2023. This renewed interest is being driven in particular by under-35s in 2023, 43% of whom say they are interested.… in equity investments and their confidence in these products. In 2023, 32% of respondents say they are interested … of them regarding the evolution of their own economic and financial situation, despite current levels of inflation. … of respondents say they have already been the victim of a financial investment scam, and among them, 35% of under-35s, … |
22 December 2023 | Enforcement Committee news releases | AMF Enforcement Committee fines a financial investment advisor and its director for breach of professional obligations In its decision of 19 December 2023, the Committee imposed a fine of €15,000 on each of the respondents, Séquence 13 and its director, Jean-Louis Lehmann, and banned them from acting as financial investment advisors for five years.… AMF Enforcement Committee fines a financial investment advisor and its director for breach of … its professional obligations in the marketing of several financial products, in particular the obligation to provide its clients … |
21 December 2023 | AMF news release | The AMF publishes summary of third thematic inspection of asset management companies' cybersecurity systems Cybersecurity is one of the main topic identified by the AMF within its risk mapping. With a view to implementing the European Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) and in line with its risk mapping, the AMF has examined the cyber risk supervision systems of five institutions in the light of their relationships with their main IT service…… responsible for ensuring that savings invested in financial products are protected and that investors are provided with … |
20 December 2023 | Policy | Position - Recommendation DOC-2020-03 Position-Recommendation DOC-2020-03 sets out the information on the consideration of non-financial criteria that French collective investment undertakings and foreign UCITS authorised for marketing in France may disclose. These provisions are described for the various regulatory documents (key investor information documents, prospectus) and…… by collective investment schemes incorporating non-financial approaches … Professional investors UCIT Disclosure … 533-12, L. 533-22-1 and L. 533-22-2-1 of the Monetary and Financial Code (in french only) Articles 411-126 and 421-25 … information to be provided for collective investment products entailing a non-financial aspect authorised for … |
19 December 2023 | Public statements | Closing speech by Marie-Anne Barbat-Layani, AMF Chair - 20 years of the Autorité des Marchés Financiers - Thursday 23 November 2023 … the public authorities' ambition, through the Law on Financial Security: to have an "effective and powerful … regulators, but here are a few: We have experienced major financial and non-financial crises - I'm thinking of the … high expectations in terms of the labelling of financial products. In the world of investment funds, the work carried … |
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