Welcome to the February issue of our Funds E-zine. To read our articles, please click on the hyperlinks below. For further information on any of the topics covered in this month’s issue, please call or email any of the key contacts or your usual William Fry contact.

Patricia Taylor
Partner
Asset Management and Investment Funds

• Financial Transaction Tax Given the Go Ahead 
• ESMA Guidelines on AIFMD remuneration
• Central Bank and the UCITS “10% Trash Ratio”
• ESRB issues Recommendations on MMFs
• Finance Bill 2013 – REITs Update 
• ECB opinion on UCITS V 
• EMIR Update 
• The Fourth Anti-Money Laundering Directive 
• Credit Rating Agencies Rules Revamped
• Short Selling Regulation Update 
• EU & Brazil to Cooperate on Cross-Border Supervision of AIFs 
• ESA 2013 Work Programme 
• Central Bank Amended AIF Handbook and Feedback Statement