Funds Focus – July 26
July 2026 update: Irish and EU fund regulatory developments, including CBI UCITS changes, ESMA CSAs, delegation review, and Q3 tracker.
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July 2026 update: Irish and EU fund regulatory developments, including CBI UCITS changes, ESMA CSAs, delegation review, and Q3 tracker.
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August 2026 updates cover Irish, UK and EU regulatory developments for fund managers, plus a Q3 2026 tracker.
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The Irish High Court confirms that arbitration clauses do not block winding-up petitions absent a genuine dispute on the debt.
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The EIOPA Opinion provides timely guidance on interpreting existing insurance legislation in the context of Artificial Intelligence systems.
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DORA significantly raises the benchmark in cyber and ICT risk management standards for insurance firms operating across Europe.
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We focus on three key topics from the Central Bank's latest Insurance Quarterly Newsletter: the thematic inspection of Product Oversight and Govern...
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In this follow-on article for our DORA series, we focus on the draft implementation measures and timelines for the EU's Digital Operational Resilie...
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With the pensions landscape in Ireland ever-changing, our pension team's Spring Briefing 2023 considers some of the recent key regulatory developme...
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The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority published a supervisory statement on the management of non-affirmative cyber exposures.
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The European Commission has recently published proposals for a new EU regulation for digital operational resilience for the financial services sect...
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The Central Bank of Ireland launches a public consultation on the proposed introduction of guidance outlining action that (re)insurers can take to ...
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Each month our Asset Management & Investment Funds team write a 'Legal & Regulatory Update'. Welcome to the our September edition.
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Climate change risks, outsourcing and digitalisation, are the key topics the Central Bank of Ireland addresses in its latest edition of the Insuran...
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On 20 October 2020, the Central Bank published findings from its review of fund management companies' implementation of the rules and guidelines un...
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The Central Bank has published its findings following a thematic inspection of investment firms and fund service providers' management of cybersecu...
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The Central Bank of Ireland has published a "Dear CRO" Letter following a number of on-site inspections focused on operational risk management.
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On 17 December 2021, the Central Bank published, with immediate effect, cross-industry guidance for the management of outsourcing activities.
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On 17 December 2021, the Central Bank published, with immediate effect, cross-industry guidance for the management of outsourcing activities.
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An overview of the impacts and exposures elaborated upon in the Central Bank's Consultation Paper on Intra-Group Transactions affecting Irish (re)i...
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We briefly consider the key topics covered in the 'Governance and risk in a time of uncertainty and change' speech delivered by Deputy Governor of ...
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The EU Action Plan on Sustainable Finance: What UCITS ManCos, AIFMs and MiFID-authorised investment firms need to know.