15 September 2022 | AMF news release | Call for candidates: renewal of the members of the Climate and Sustainable Finance Commission As the first term of office of the Climate and Sustainable Finance Commission (CCFD) expires mid-October 2022, the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) is launching a call for candidates for its renewal. The Commission was created in July 2019 and is made up of people selected for their expertise and their representation of the different market… … change, social issues and environmental, social and governance (ESG) data. The CCFD’s working language is … |
12 August 2022 | News | Sustainability requirements in the distribution of financial instruments: update on upcoming legislation and its implementation dates On 2 August 2022, Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/1253 comes into force, amending the MiFID II framework by introducing sustainability preferences. Further legislation will subsequently come into force, affecting not only investment services providers (ISPs) from 22 November 2022, but also financial investment advisers (FIAs) from 1 January 2023. … objectives to the considerations relating to product governance requirements. The directive, which applies to ISPs … conflicts of interest that may arise; implementing product governance. Based on the responses to the public … on 8 July 2022 on the review of its guidelines on product governance requirements to reflect the changes in the … |
27 July 2022 | News | AMF's response to the International Sustainability Standards Board’s consultation on the exposure drafts on international sustainability disclosures The AMF publishes a position paper, complemented by a technical appendix, in response to the ISSB (International Sustainability Standards Board) consultation on the exposure drafts on sustainability disclosure standards. … cover the entire ESG spectrum (Environmental, Social and Governance issues) in the development of its future … |
26 July 2022 | Policy | Instruction DOC-2010-09 … or, in the case of higher education institutions, the governance mode … organisation is not a higher education institution, the governance mode [management body or bodies, supervisory body … - Act in an honest, loyal and professional manner 2.2 2 A Governance, remuneration and good conduct of issuers … |
13 July 2022 | AMF news release | Publication of the SPOT inspection campaign summary on market abuse prevention systems in asset management companies The purpose of these SPOT investigations was to analyse the systems for preventing, monitoring, detecting and reporting of market abuse among five asset management companies (AMCs). The work carried out by the inspection task force did not identify any particularly serious breaches. Nevertheless, the AMF calls on AMCs to improve their market abuse… … focused its work on the following: the organisation and governance of the market abuse prevention system (human … to the human resources dedicated to the organisation and governance of this system, four of the five AMCs placed the … |
01 July 2022 | AMF news release | The AMF continues its data strategy with the release of short selling data to the public Given that it is an important component of its ICData governance programme and strategy of more intensive data exploitation, opening data to the public is a way for the AMF to share its data assets for the benefit of researchers, for example. This data will be accessible on the French public data dissemination platform: data.gouv.fr. … Given that it is an important component of its ICData governance programme and strategy of more intensive data … … Given that it is an important component of its ICData governance programme and strategy of more intensive data … |
24 June 2022 | AMF news release | Appointments to the Legal Affairs Directorate and Enforcement Assistance Directorate of the Autorité des Marchés Financiers Maxence Delorme has been appointed Director of Legal Affairs with effect from 1 August 2022. He was previously Director of Enforcement Assistance at the AMF. He will replace Anne Maréchal, who leaves the AMF on 1 August after nine years of service.
Amélie du Passage, who was previously Maxence Delorme’s deputy, has been appointed Director of… … mergers and acquisitions and listed companies’ corporate governance issues. In 2014, she joined the AMF as a Policy … |
04 May 2022 | AMF news release | The AMF launches a consultation on the integration of sustainability requirements into its General Regulation Following the adoption by the European Commission of a comprehensive package of measures to reorient capital flows towards sustainable activities across the European Union, the AMF has launched a consultation on the integration of sustainability obligations into its General Regulation. … sustainability factors in the applicable into the product governance obligations; the integration for financial … the integration of sustainability factors into the product governance obligations; the transposition for UCITS … of ISPs, the AMF transposes the following applicable governance requirements: take into account sustainability … |
28 April 2022 | AMF news release | Appointments in the Investigations Directorate and the Asset Management Directorate Marianick Darnis Lorca, hitherto Deputy Head of the Investigations Directorate, has been appointed Head of Investigations. She takes over from Laurent Combourieu, who recently took charge of the AMF's activities relating to Chief Compliance and Internal Control Officers (RCCI) and Chief Investment Services Compliance Officers (RCSI). … advice to listed companies on stock exchange law and governance issues. … Laurent Combourieu, Head of Compliance … … |
13 April 2022 | AMF news release | The AMF publishes a summary of its SPOT inspections on post-trade transparency in the bond market During its inspection of the practices of five investment services providers with regard to the rules on post-trade transparency stipulated in MiFID II for the bond market, the AMF found numerous shortcomings in their application. … its SPOT inspections, the AMF examined in particular: governance arrangements for the publication of transactions; … |