14 May, 2024 EU: ESMA publishes its awaited Final Guidelines on funds’ names using ESG or sustainability-related terms By Premlata Fagan ESMA has now published its long-awaited Final Report setting out its Guidelines on funds’ names using ESG or sustainability-related...
18 Dec, 2023 EU: EIOPA consultation on anti-greenwashing opinion for insurance and pension sectors By Jimi Piggott-Bader Raza Naeem Julia Vergauwen Premlata Fagan +1 more... Show less The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) has published a consultation paper on its proposed approach to tackle...
15 Dec, 2023 EU: ESMA postpones adoption of ESG and sustainability-related terms in fund names guidance until Q2 2024 By Raza Naeem Elizabeth Webb Julia Vergauwen Cédric Danois Nicola Zeibig +2 more... Show less On 14 December 2023, ESMA published a statement providing an update on the status of ESMA’s guidelines on ESG and sustainability-related...
05 Dec, 2023 EU: SFDR RTS – ESAs final report published confirming new raft of amendments to SFDR sustainability disclosures By Raza Naeem Elliot Jack Silke Bernard Dr Frederik Winter Peter Bevan Sebastian Barling Andreas Van Impe Julia Vergauwen Anisha Desor James Morris Terry Yiangou Benjamin Maconick Premlata Fagan Jimi Piggott-Bader +11 more... Show less The European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) have published their final report with proposed amendments to the SFDR RTS. The revised draft...
29 Nov, 2023 UK: FCA SDR investment labels and anti-greenwashing policy statement published By Premlata Fagan Raza Naeem Sebastian Barling Peter Bevan Rahul Manvatkar Rachel Barrett Julia Vergauwen Benjamin Maconick Terry Yiangou James Morris Elliot Jack Elizabeth Webb +9 more... Show less On 28 November 2023, the FCA published a policy statement (“PS”) with its final rules and guidance on its Sustainability Disclosure...
12 Oct, 2023 EU Commission hosts SFDR workshop: discussing the shape of a possible labelling system, merits of expanding SFDR disclosures to all products and more By Premlata Fagan When the Commission issued its consultation on the implementation of the SFDR back in September (see our earlier blog post here), it...
03 Oct, 2023 ESMA to launch Common Supervisory Action on MiFID II sustainability requirements in 2024 By Stephen Clipsham ESMA has published a statement today to announce that it will launch a Common Supervisory Action (CSA) with National Competent...
29 Sep, 2023 EU: ESAs publish second report on the extent of voluntary disclosure of principle adverse impacts under SFDR By Premlata Fagan Julia Vergauwen Following on from their first annual report to the European Commission in July 2022 (see our blog post here), the European Supervisory...