20 February 2024 | Article | The AMF Board The Board is the AMF’s main decision-making and prosecuting authority It has 16 members drawn from a broad variety of backgrounds. This multidisciplinarity ensures that it has the technical and legal expertise needed to carry out its tasks.… impair investors' rights or the proper functioning of the market. … Examine inspection and investigation reports and … investigation reveals offences that may be qualified as market abuse, the Board must refer the case to the French … Financial Markets Directorate and the Payments and Market Infrastructures Directorate. He was also seconded for a year … |
26 January 2024 | Public statements | Speech by Marie-Anne Barbat-Layani, AMF Chair - New Year address to the financial centre - Thursday 18 January 2024 … investor information and the proper functioning of the market, are the best contribution we can make to the … dual listing - a very good move at a time when the stock market is looking rather gloomy. On another note, I hope … asset management, marketing, intermediaries and market infrastructures. We need to ensure that our monitoring tools … |
26 January 2024 | Policy | Position DOC-2024-01 On January 26, 2024, the AMF declared that it complies with ESMA's Guidelines published on October 23, 2023 on EMIR reporting. The ESMA guidelines are available at the following links:In French: Orientations ESMA relatives aux déclarations au titre du règlement EMIRIn English:Guidelines ESMA for reporting under EMIR… ESMA’s Guidelines for reporting under EMIR … Market Infrastructures Investment services providers Investment … central counterparties and trade repositories - European Market Infrastructure Regulation ("EMIR"). Book 5 Position … |
19 January 2024 | Annual Report | AMF Supervisory Priorities for 2024 In this document, the AMF presents the supervisory themes for the year 2023 for professionals subject to its supervision. These priorities cover the following areas: asset management, the activities of intermediaries and market infrastructures, and the marketing of financial products.… asset management, the activities of intermediaries and market infrastructures, and the marketing of financial products. AMF … asset management, the activities of intermediaries and market infrastructures, and the marketing of financial … |
18 January 2024 | AMF news release | The AMF publishes its action plan and supervisory priorities for 2024 Marie-Anne Barbat-Layani, Chairwoman of the Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF), outlined the AMF’s priorities for the coming twelve months to the press, in line with the “Impact 2027” strategic guidelines defined in 2023. All these priorities reflect the AMF’s commitment to strive each day to protect investors and enhance the attractiveness of…… and real estate assets. … Concerning intermediaries and market infrastructures: … Quality of MiFIR, EMIR, SFTR, and CSDR … cross-functional processes relating to employee conduct; Market abuses prevention with traditional supervision of … |
14 December 2023 | Policy | Position DOC-2023-10 … centraux de titres – procédure de « comply or explain » … Market Infrastructures Market infrastructures Policy Book 5 Position DOC-2023-10 … … |
20 October 2023 | Public statements | Speech by Marie-Anne Barbat-Layani, AMF Chair - Fintech AMF-ACPR Forum, Monday 16 October 2023 … a financial centre, now the largest in Europe in terms of market capitalisation, has been underpinned by the role of a … possible by the “European Regulation on a pilot regime for market infrastructures based on distributed ledger technology,” … |
06 October 2023 | Public statements | Speech by Benoît de Juvigny, AMF Secretary General - AFME’s 7th Annual European Compliance and Legal Conference – 28 September 2023, Brussels … the Union is moving forward and strengthening the Single Market for financial services. We can always see the CMU as a … reliance on third-country financial institutions and infrastructures”; It also identified the need for the EU to shield and strengthen the resilience of financial-market infrastructures; And at the same time, develop … |
28 July 2023 | News | Market infrastuctures on blockchain technology: adaptation of the French securities laws The European regulation on a pilot regime for market infrastructures based on distributed ledger technology entered into application on 23rd March 2023. This regulation allows for certain market infrastructures to be temporarily exempted from specific requirements of Union financial services legislation, in order to experiment the use of…… Market infrastuctures on blockchain technology: adaptation of … on a distributed ledger, under the pilot regime. A DLT market infrastructure could be mandated by an issuer for the … on the nature of the authorization sought, the DLT market infrastructures project owners will have as entry point … |
27 July 2023 | News | Central counterparties’ recovery and resolution: AMF complies with ESMA guidelines The AMF updates its doctrine with a new position DOC-2023-06 implementing ESMA guidelines on temporary restrictions, early intervention measures and the circumstances under which a central counterparty is failing or likely to fail in accordance with the Regulation relating to central counterparties’ recovery and resolution.… AMF complies with ESMA guidelines … News … Post-trade Infrastructures … Central counterparties’ recovery and … ESMA guidelines … Regulatory developments … Post-trading infrastructures … Market infrastructures … |
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