14 March 2024 | News | Combatting money laundering and terrorist financing: AMF applies two sets of European Banking Authority guidelines The AMF has updated its Position 2019-14 on risk factors and published a new Position 2024-02 on the provision of access to financial services to take account of two sets of EBA guidelines. … Banking Authority guidelines … Harmonisation of European supervision … On 31 March 2023, the European Banking … of the Monetary and Financial Code that are subject to AMF supervision in the field of combating money laundering and … |
12 March 2024 | Public statements | Speech by Marie-Anne Barbat-Layani, AMF Chair - Conference organised by the Master’s in Business Law, and the Master’s in Corporate Finance and Financial Engineering, as part of the House of Finance Days – “Sustainable Finance: Risks and opportunities ... … they are not an end in themselves, and our day-to-day supervision action is at least as important. The review we … |
12 March 2024 | Policy | Position DOC-2019-14 The AMF applies the European Supervisory Authorities' Joint Guidelines, which explain the relevant ML/TF risk factors that financial sector professionals should consider to best adjust the scope of their customer due diligence measures. Chapters 8 and 9 of Title III of the Guidelines include sectoral developments relating to individual asset… … III that concern Obliged Entities placed under the AMF’s supervision are: - Chapter 8, which applies i) to asset … following concern Obliged Entities placed under the AMF’s supervision: - Guidelines 12 and 15, which apply i) to asset … |
11 March 2024 | Article | Operating as a crowdfunding service provider in France In which cases can you apply to the AMF for authorisation to become a crowdfunding service provider? How do you obtain this authorisation? Have you been authorised as a crowdfunding service provider in another Member State of the European Union (EU) and would like to offer your services in France? Find all the useful information here. … competent authorities in relation to investigation, supervision and enforcement activities in relation to … |
06 March 2024 | AMF news release | AMF calls on investment services providers to take account of the specific nature of temporary ownership dismemberment when marketing SCPI units Protecting investors is the AMF's top strategic priority. During a series of short, thematic inspections at four distributor institutions, the AMF found that very little attention was paid to the specific features of temporary ownership dismemberment in the provision of investment services involving units in real estate investment companies (SCPIs… … and August 2023, short, thematic audits, known as SPOT (Supervision of Operational and Thematic Practices), analysed … ownership dismemberment when marketing SCPI units … Supervision … Marketing … MIFID … |
05 March 2024 | Article | Enforcement Committee The Enforcement Committee, which is made up of judges and professionals, has total freedom to make decisions. It can impose sanctions on any person or company whose practices contravene laws and regulations that fall within the jurisdiction of the AMF. It also ratifies settlement agreements and takes part in providing information to… … by members under conditions that preclude any right of supervision during the term of office; The incompatibility of … |
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They have scientific, legal, financial and accounting backgrounds. They come from a vast range of professions and sectors: banks, asset management companies, listed companies, audit and consulting firms, law firms,… … amount of information on the French firms under its supervision. This data is both varied and very large in … |
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. … by members under conditions that preclude any right of supervision during the term of office; The incompatibility of … in the International Affairs Directorate, Head of the Supervision Department in the Market Investigation and … stability and monetary policy (Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, Committee on the Global Financial System, Euro … |
20 February 2024 | AMF’s EU positions | Towards a review of SFDR The AMF contributed, at the end of last year, to the consultation launched by the European Commission on the Sustainable finance disclosure regulation (SFDR). It publishes today a position paper outlining the key principles it believes should guide the SFDR review. … should be subject to national competent authorities (NCAs) supervision: a financial product claiming to belong to one … |
12 February 2024 | Article | Make my reporting, notifications and disclosure to the AMF MiFID II transaction reporting, annual RCSI questionnaire, suspicious transaction reporting, disclosure of net short positions, notifications under CSDR, MAR or EMIR. Find here the list of your reporting obligations and the procedures for submission to the AMF for each type of information. … be sent immediately, in PDF format, to the AMF's Market Supervision Directorate via the Sesterce tool which ensures … regulations, in short … As part of its mission of market supervision and in accordance with Article L621-8-4 of the … |