Stephen Evans

February 18, 2021

Commission and ESAs lock horns on Priips KID

There appears to be a fundamental difference of opinion between EU financial sector regulators and…
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February 11, 2021

EU-UK financial services relations threatened by mistrust

Signs of how the EU will seek to remould its relationship with the UK on financial services are…
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February 4, 2021

ELTIF to get a makeover

Mobilising long term private sector funding for ambitions such as the green industrial revolution is…
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January 28, 2021

GDPR and Brexit: another deadline

Personal data transfers in general, and in the financial sector in particular, are one of the many…
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Asset Managers
January 21, 2021

Fund directors rush to update ESG stance

Despite the looming EU deadline on ESG reporting, around a third of boards of UCITS funds and nearly…
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Asset Managers
January 14, 2021

Stricter governance rules for Lux banks, investment firms

Substantial governance-reform targets have been set for banks and investment firms by the CSSF. Some…
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Asset Managers
December 23, 2020

Welcome to long Brexit

Despite there being a deal now, Brexit will never be done. Even if the end of the transition period…
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December 11, 2020

Lux PM Bettel: ‘Taxes are poison’

‘Taxes are poison for companies hit by the crisis,’ Xavier Bettel told a Luxembourg for Finance…
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Asset Allocation
December 3, 2020

Is a residential property bubble building in Luxembourg?

The price of an average house in Luxembourg has now risen well above €1m, making the Grand Duchy…
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November 26, 2020

UK plans its own ESG taxonomy

A separate UK ESG investing taxonomy and a couple of foreign-fund access regimes that replicate EU…
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November 25, 2020

Tax planning: how Biden’s election impacts Luxembourg

What is the outlook for taxing US multinationals under a Joe Biden presidency? Even as the noise and…
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Private Banks
November 16, 2020

What risk to Luxembourg banks post Covid?

The withdrawal of economic support post-pandemic could cause a shock for Europe’s banks akin to the…
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November 5, 2020

ILA: companies should prepare for EU regulation on corporate governance

Is the European Commission planning to regulate European corporate governance practices? Last week…
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October 29, 2020

Commission to announce ‘six-point plan’ on ESG

What will come next from the EU after the green taxonomy, SFDR and green labelling? Martin Spolc…
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