Financial rules affecting the management of Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs) or the marketing of alternative investment products, including retail markets and KID/PRIIPs regulation as well as Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti Money Laundering (AML) requirements.
The Danish Financial Supervisory Authority (the “Danish FSA”) has initiated an inspection of three managers in September 2024.
SFDRSustainabilityThe Danish FSAOn 5 February 2025, the Danish FSA published a new and updated version of its report detailing its practice regarding the fitness assessment of board members, executive management members and key persons in financial businesses.
Danish RegulationGovernanceThe Danish FSAOn 17 December 2024, the Danish Financial Supervisory Authority (Danish FSA) published a guiding statement regarding the inclusion of leverage by alternative investment fund managers (AIFMs) in unlisted companies and issuers.
AIFMDDanish RegulationESMAThe Danish FSAOn 29 November 2024, the Danish FSA published a new and updated version of its guidelines on requirements in the financial legislation regarding the suitability and integrity of board members, executive management members and key persons in financial companies, known as the fit & proper guidelines.
Danish RegulationGovernanceThe Danish FSAAs of today, the NIS-2 Directive (“NIS2”) applies to the most important IT suppliers to the financial sector.
DORANIS2On 19 June 2024 EU’s new Anti-Money Laundering package was announced. The new AML package has been long in the making, and the Commission presented its package of legislative proposals as early as July 2021.
KYC / AMLOn 2 May 2024, the Danish Parliament adopted an amendment to the Danish Financial Business Act to provide the Danish FSA with a legal framework for supervision of the financial sector under the DORA Regulation and the NIS-2 Directive.
DORANIS2The European Commission has earlier this year published a number of targeted proposals to amend the PRIIP Level 1 Regulation, implementing more modern rules on how a PRIIP Key Information Document (KID) is provided to investors. The proposed changes aim to change the content of the (KID) which must be provided to retail investors before investing.
KID / PRIIPSOn 18 April 2023, the Danish Parliament adopted the proposal to amend the financial regulation presented by the Danish Government, which includes amendments to the rules on fit & proper assessments.
Danish RegulationGovernanceOn 6 September 2021, The EU Commission amended the EU delegated regulation for the presentation of the Key Information Document (“KID”).
KID / PRIIPSThe Danish FSA has assessed the quality of 4 pension companies and eight credit institutions' website disclosures with regards to information about their policies on the integration of sustainability risks in the investment decision-making process.
AIFMDComplianceDisclosure RequirementsSustainabilityThe European Commission has once again delayed the application of the level 2 obligations of the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) until January 2023.
AIFMDComplianceDisclosure RequirementsSustainabilityOn 21 July 2021, the European Commission presented a package of legislative proposals to strengthen the EU’s anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) rules.
KYC / AMLThe EU Commission has amended the EU delegated regulation for the presentation and the content of the Key Information Document (KID) that sets out information on risks, rewards and costs to be given to retail investors (i.e. non-professional investors) in good time before they invest in alternative investment funds etc.
KID / PRIIPSThe Commission has completed a public consultation on the proposal for a EU Green Bond Standard. The consultation proposes to use the EU Taxonomy to define green bonds.
AIFMDSustainabilityThe Danish FSA has announced that they are strengthening their supervisory activities within anti-money laundering and counter terrorist financing by implementing a number of new measures.
KYC / AMLThe statement seeks to mitigate the risk of divergent application, by national competent authorities, for determining the type of bonds for which it is necessary to draw up a Key Information Document (KID).
Disclosure RequirementsESMAKID / PRIIPSOn 16 October 2019 ESA has issued a consultation paper on amendments to existing rules underpinning the Key Information Document (KID) for Packaged Retail and Insurance-based Investment Products (PRIIPs).
Disclosure RequirementsESMAKID / PRIIPSESMA has issued updated statements in relation to its approach to the application of some key MiFID/MiFIR II provisions in case of a no deal Brexit.
BrexitOn 28 August 2019 the Danish FSA (in Danish: Finanstilsynet) published for consultation a draft proposal to change, among others, the Danish AIFM Act and the Danish AML Act.
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