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AFME responds to ESMA’s new MiFIR and MiFID II regimes for third-country firms
01 May 2020 London
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

AFME has responded to ESMA's consultation paper on the provision of investment services and activities in the union by third-country firms under MiFID II and MiFIR

AFME weighs in on COVID-19 impacts
27 April 2020 London
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

Markets have continued to play their role in providing liquidity, price formation, timely clearing and settlement procedures, capital allocation and helping investors manage their portfolios, according to AFME

AFME publishes CSDR recommendations
04 March 2020 London
Reporter: Maddie Saghir

AFME’s recommendations aim to encourage greater and more harmonised use of partial settlement across the industry as a way of improving settlement rates

Trade bodies unite to call for CSDR buy-in delay
24 January 2020 Paris
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Fourteen trade associations including ISLA, ICMA and AFME have sent a joint letter to the EU requesting radical reforms to CSDR’s settlement regime to avoid a liquidity crisis in Septemeber

AFME sets out recommendations for supervisory convergence on crypto-asset regs
13 November 2019 London
Reporter: Becky Bellamy

In the paper, the association set out five recommendations to help encourage collaboration between regulators in Europe and work towards a common approach to the regulation and development of crypto assets in financial services

Increases adoption of public cloud is vital, says AFME
05 November 2019 London
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

The increase in adoption of the public cloud is vital to the whole industry, including banks, cloud providers and regulators, according to James Kemp, managing director, head of technology and operations at AFME

AFME: More work to be done to make Europe competitive
16 October 2019 London
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

There is still much work to be done at European and national levels, particularly in making Europe’s capital markets more competitive, according to Simon Lewis, chief executive of The Association for Financial Markets in Europe

AFME: Brexit is a losing game for UK and EU post-trade
08 May 2019 London
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Brexit is a losing game for post-trade within the UK and the EU in terms of infrastructure, according to a panellist at the 12th AFME Post Trade Conference

AFME publishes revised DDQ
28 November 2018 London
Reporter: Becky Butcher

AFME has published an updated version of its due diligence questionnaire

AFME: Is AI harder to police than humans?
01 October 2018 London
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

A discussion about whether AI is harder to police than humans split the AFME Legal and Compliance conference audience right down the middle, with 50 percent saying “yes” and "no"

AFME: It’s unlikely we will leave the EU with a deal
01 October London
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Over one-third of delegates that were asked at this year’s AFME Legal and Compliance conference thought it would be more than likely that the UK could leave the European Union without a deal

EFAMA appoints Tanguy van de Werve as director general
20 September 2018 Brussels
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

The European Fund and Asset Management Association has appointed Tanguy van de Werve as its new director general