The presentation analyses the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD), addresses the lessons learned from the directive and offers an outline of the 2021 reform proposals to the AIFMD.
e-Presentation | February 2023 | Learning time: 37 minutes
e-Presentation by André Zerafa, Managing Partner, Ganado Advocates, Malta.
Reform of European Long-term Investment Funds: Outline of the Key Amendments to the ELTIF Regulation
This presentation presents the key problems ELTIFs 1.0 faced and elaborates on the proposals to amend the Regulation. It provides an overview of the ELTIF reform’s key fund rules, including scope of eligible assets, investment strategies, leverage, marketing, redemptions and other rules.
e-Presentation | February 2023 | Learning time: 30 minutes
e-Presentation by Ivan Kuznetsov, Policy Officer, DG FISMA, European Commission, Brussels.
This e-presentation addresses greenwashing, its different shapes and forms, how regulators are reacting to this risk and what can be done to mitigate it.
e-Presentation | February 2023 | Learning time: 35 minutes
e-Presentation by Laetitia Hamon, Head of Sustainable Finance, Luxembourg Stock Exchange, Luxembourg.
The presentation explains the Capital Markets Union and its background, detailing the relevant legislative proposals and offering some considerations from a practitioner’s perspective.
e-Presentation | December 2022 | Learning time: 26 minutes
e-Presentation by Willem Van de Wiele, Counsel, White & Case, Brussels .
The presentation elaborates on the General Court of the European Union’s five judgments concerning the resolution scheme of the Banco Popular Español, their reasonings and the meaning of the case law for the bank resolution framework.
e-Presentation | December 2022 | Learning time: 26 minutes
e-Presentation by Myrte Thijssen, Legal Officer, UNIDROIT, Rome.
The e-presentation provides an overview and an update on the European Commission’s AML/CFT package and its legislative proposals. The package contains the AML/CFT Regulation with the rules applicable to the private sector, the AMLA Regulation regulating the oversight of EU AML/CFT architecture, the 6th AML/CFT Directive with the rules applicable to competent authorities and the review of Transfer of Funds Regulation foreseeing the rules on traceability of crypto-asset transfers.
e-Presentation | November 2022 | Learning time: 59 minutes
e-Presentation by Chiara Bacci, Team Leader, Enforcement of AML/CFT Policy, DG FISMA, European Commission, Brussels.
The e-presentation provides an update on the new EU Anti-Money-Laundering Authority (AMLA). It elaborates on AMLA’s planned tasks, competences and future relationship with the existing authorities.
e-Presentation | November 2022 | Learning time: 44 minutes
e-Presentation by Olena Loboiko, Policy Officer, Enforcement of AML/CFT Policy, DG FISMA, European Commission, Brussels.
The e-presentation explains AML/CFT and targeted financial sanctions (TFS), their differences, similarities and synergies. TFS are addressed both within the FATF standards and the European Commission’s AML/CFT package.
e-Presentation | November 2022 | Learning time: 38 minutes
e-Presentation by Chiara Bacci, Team Leader, Enforcement of AML/CFT Policy, DG FISMA, European Commission, Brussels.
This e-presentation provides an update on the latest money laundering trends and threats and how to combat them effectively. An overview of AML typologies and trends is given and the latest findings on crimes related to virtual assets are explained.
e-Presentation | May 2022 | Learning time: 34 minutes
e-Presentation by Max Braun, Head of Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) & Stéphanie Camporesi, Financial Analyst, FIU, Luxembourg.
In this e-presentation the speaker provides valuable insights into the Belgian approach to asset recovery and asset management. He presents how asset-tracing works effectively and explains the implications of Regulation (EU) 2018/1805 on mutual recognition of freezing and confiscation orders.
e-Presentation | May 2022 | Learning time: 39 minutes
e-Presentation by Jean-Michel Verelst, Director, Central Office for Seizure and Confiscation (COSC); King’s Deputy Prosecutor for Brussels.
The presentation addresses the background and rationale leading to regulating markets in crypto assets, elaborates on specifics of the MiCAR proposal and sheds some light on practical application of the regulation in certain more novel cases.
e-Presentation | May 2022 | Learning time: 46 minutes
e-Presentation by Elisabeth Noble, Senior Policy Advisor, European Banking Authority, Paris.
This presentation provides an overview of the proposed EU Regulation on a pilot regime for market infrastructures based on distributed ledger technology (DLT) whilst also addressing ESMA’s role under it.
e-Presentation | May 2022 | Learning time: 25 minutes
e-Presentation by Giulia Ferraris, Senior Policy Officer, European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), Paris
This e-presentation gives an overview of the unlawful use of cryptocurrency, particularly with regard to money laundering, and investigation techniques used to identify parties in bitcoin transactions and attribute them to a specific offence.
e-Presentation | April 2022 | Learning time: 31 minutes
e-Presentation by David Silva Ramalho, Defence Lawyer, Morais Leitão, Galvão Teles, Soares da Silva & Associados; Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Lisbon.
This presentation describes the background to the EU market abuse regime and the origin and evolution of market abuse prevention. It also addresses economic and ethical rationale of prohibiting market abuse, and provides national and international perspectives.
e-Presentation | March 2021 | Learning time: 55 minutes
Sebastian Mock, Professor, Vienna University.
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This presentation discusses the interpretation and scope of coverage of market abuse prevention measures, focusing on products, markets and geography. It also addresses the compliance subjects (issuers, intermediaries, journalists and the role of intent) and the compliance enforcers (competent authorities, regulated markets, ESAs). The presentation also addresses the substantive defences, safe harbours, exemptions and evidentiary defences available under the market abuse regime.
e-Presentation | March 2021 | Learning time: 51 minutes
Andreas Meyer, Managing Director and Associate General Counsel, Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt am Main.
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Maarten Vleeschhouwer provides an outline of the EU Action Plan for Financing Sustainable Growth, including the process, achievements and the work ahead. The presentation sets forth the key elements of the Action Plan: capital allocation, risk management
and fostering long-termism. Looking closer at the capital allocation element, the presentation reviews the taxonomy of sustainable activities, related disclosures, benchmarks and standards/labels.
e-Presentation | February 2020 | Learning time: 52 minutes
Maarten Vleeschhouwer
Claude Marx discusses climate change and financial sustainability from the perspective of a financial supervisor and regulator. Reviewing the entire field of climate finance, this e-presentation touches upon the pressing policy and implementation issues
related to climate action in the area of finance and investments.
e-Presentation | February 2020 | Learning time: 24 minutes
Claude Marx
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In this e-presentation Pierre Monnin explores climate risks – physical risks vs transition risks related to climate change – from an economic perspective and euro-area financial institutions’ exposure to transition risks, as well as policy initiatives
related to climate risk and financial stability.
e-Presentation | February 2020 | Learning time: 37 minutes
Pierre Monnin
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This e-presentation by Henning Berger provides the broader context and main points of Regulation (EU) 2019/452 establishing an EU framework for screening of third-country investments, including in critical financial infrastructure. He asks how the new
Regulation fits within the Capital Markets Union.
e-Presentation | December 2019 | Learning time: 40 minutes
Henning Berger
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Professor Zetzsche provides an outline of the LIBRA Association and Consortium and describes LIBRA’s proposition of financial inclusion and sustainability, as well as regulatory concerns, including coin characteristics, capital and systemic risk, monetary
policy, AML, tax, transparency and more.
e-Presentation | December 2019 | Learning time: 34 minutes
Dirk A. Zetzsche
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Professor Zetzsche talks about drivers of the EU RegTech experiment – MiFID2, GDPR, PSD2 and eIDAS – as well as emerging regulatory approaches to the intersection of finance and data.
e-Presentation | December 2019 | Learning time: 36 minutes
Dirk A. Zetzsche
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In this presentation Kostas Botopoulos speaks about the extended powers of the ESAs in the enhanced Single Rule Book. He addresses transparency, disclosure and liability of ESAs in prudential supervision.
e-Presentation | December 2019 | Learning time: 1 hour 2 minutes
Kostas Botopoulos
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João Sousa Gião speaks about the supervisory challenges of UK withdrawal from the EU, the ESMA Brexit opinion and a range of policy priorities: MiFID II/MiFIR, data quality, free movement of services, and FinTech.
e-Presentation | December 2019 | Learning time: 29 minutes
João Sousa Gião
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Giuseppe Giusti addresses policy priorities for post-Brexit transition and the chances for financial disruption versus continuity. He explores possible repercussions and additional future contingencies for EU financial institutions.
e-Presentation | December 2019 | Learning time: 24 minutes
Giuseppe Giusti
In this e-presentation Joan Carette and Jean-Christophe Vercauteren assess the impact of the new Cross-Border Payments Regulation and provide an update on developments related to PSD2 and GDPR, as well as regulatory trends and the industry outlook for
2020.
e-Presentation | December 2019 | Learning time: 22 minutes
Joan Carette & Jean-Christophe Vercauteren
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Christopher P Buttigieg takes stock of policy and regulatory trends in EU financial supervision, covering areas such as sustainable finance, FinTech, RegTech, SupTech, cybersecurity, as well as the overarching question of the supervisory structure and
whether fragmentation or centralisation will be the path ahead. Other topics addressed include business model sustainability, money-laundering and counter-terrorist financing.
e-Presentation | December 2019 | Learning time: 10 minutes
Christopher P. Buttigieg
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In this e-presentation Giles Swan asks how Capital Markets Union-related regulations will affect funds and shareholders and provides a forecast of potential “CMU 2” priorities. The speaker gives an outline of the reforms needed to develop a pan-EU capital
market.
e-Presentation | December 2019 | Learning time: 25 minutes
Giles Swan
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In this e-presentation Anna Gardella addresses the Single Rulebook and EU-wide banking group regulation and asks where do we stand? She explores the regulatory perimeter, takes stock of the issue of market access for FinTech and identifies the next steps.
She also assesses the relationship between prudential supervision and the bank resolutions so far.
e-Presentation | December 2019 | Learning time: 65 minutes
Anna Gardella
This presentation addresses: The initiatives of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) on regulating virtual assets, a comparative case study: Malta AML/CFT regime and the 5th Anti-Money Laundering Directive and beyond.
e-Presentation | November 2019 | Learning time: 51 minutes
Christos Efthymiopoulos
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In this presentation Joshua Ellul gives an outline of distributed ledger technology and cryptoassets. He explains how distributed ledger technology works in practice. Additionally he gives an overview of cryptoassets.
e-Presentation | May 2019 | Learning time: 45 minutes
Joshua Ellul
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The speaker gives an overview of the crypto-asset conundrum, presenting the Financial Action Task-Force standards on the regulation of crypto-assets and the 5th AML Directive. He outlines the critical effects of anti-money laundering and terrorist financing.
e-Presentation | May 2019 | Learning time: 40 minutes
Rick McDonell
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Sjef van Erp discusses data property law, including the definition of smart contracts and blockchains, and the question of what can be the object of property law and whether we can own “data”.
e-Presentation | March 2019 | Learning time: 27 minutes
Sjef Van Erp
Marijn Storm discusses blockchain and data protection and focuses on compliance of blockchain with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
e-Presentation | March 2019 | Learning time: 27 minutes
Marijn Storm
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In this presentation the speaker gives an update on the latest developments around the Basel IV framework. He outlines the context within which the proposed changes are supposed to take place, as well as the policy responses to them, particularly in the
European Union. He analyses the rationale behind the Basel framework and its requirements, tracing the developments from Basel to Basel IV, and gives a prognosis as to the future developments, including in the EU.
e-Presentation | December 2018 | Learning time: 45 minutes
Marco Bodellini
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In this presentation the speaker discusses a number of general and specific points regarding the liability of financial supervisors. Further in the presentation, Prof Gortsos maps out the interaction and division of responsibilities between ECB and National
Competent Authorities, clarifying the relevant distinctions between the common law and civil law liability regimes. He concludes with a breakdown of the possible areas of concern within the SSM.
e-Presentation | December 2018 | Learning time: 24 minutes
Christos Gortsos
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The speaker presents an introduction to what rules apply to third countries in the context of the international anti-money laundering framework. Dr Frick then focuses his discussion on how the 5th AMLD will affect the use of cryptocurrencies.
e-Presentation | November 2018 | Learning time: 40 minutes
Thomas Frick
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David Y Habib speaks about the relationship between the 5th AMLD and the GDPR and specifically how the GDPR affects the 5th AMLD and what is to be considered by legal practitioners in this regard.
e-Presentation | November 2018 | Learning time: 40 minutes
David Y Habib
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In this presentation Hans-Jürgen Hellwig lays out the legal and historical context within which the EU Commission’s Company Law Package operates. He draws a complete picture from Daily Mail through National Grid Indus to Cartesio,
Vale and Polbud, discussing how the approach of the CJEU changed over the last decades.
e-Presentation | October 2018 | Learning time: 58 minutes
Hans-Jürgen Hellwig
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e-Presentation | April 2018 | Learning time: 32 minutes
Marco Bodellini
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e-Presentation | April 2018 | Learning time: 41 minutes
Edmund-Philipp Schuster
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e-Presentation | April 2018 | Learning time: 60 minutes
Martin Schulte and Nick Wittek
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e-Presentation | March 2018 | Learning time: 48 minutes
John Ahern
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e-Presentation | March 2018 | Learning time: 29 minutes
Frédéric de Brouwer
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e-Presentation | March 2018 | Learning time: 39 minutes
Dr Andrew Henderson
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e-Presentation | March 2018 | Learning time: 56 minutes
Dr Markus Lange
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e-Presentation | March 2018 | Learning time: 56 minutes
Dr Markus Lange
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e-Presentation | December 2017 | Learning time: 40 minutes
Carlo Comporti
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e-Presentation | December 2017 | Learning time: 49 minutes
Peter Kerstens
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e-Presentation | December 2017 | Learning time: 43 minutes
Maria Gracia Rubio de Casas
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e-Presentation | December 2017 | Learning time: 41 minutes
Zoi Jenny Giotaki
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e-Presentation | May 2017 | Learning time: 54 minutes
Carlo Comporti
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e-Presentation | April 2017 | Learning time: 59 minutes
Markus Lange
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e-Presentation | April 2017 | Learning time: 41 minutes
Pierre-Henri Conac
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e-Presentation | April 2017 | Learning time: 36 minutes
Eleftheria Apostolidou
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e-Presentation | April 2017 | Learning time: 34 minutes
Daniela Gariboldi
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e-Presentation | April 2017 | Learning time: 52 minutes
Prof Dr Christos Gortsos
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e-Presentation | March 2017 | Learning time: 53 minutes
Martin Schulte
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e-Presentation | March 2017 | Learning time: 45 minutes
Prof Christos Gortsos
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e-Presentation | March 2017 | Learning time: 34 minutes
Ross Dawkins
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e-Presentation | December 2016 | Learning time: 35 minutes
Carlo Comporti
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e-Presentation | December 2016 | Learning time: 51 minutes
Rosa Lastra
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e-Presentation | December 2016 | Learning time: 69 minutes
Konstantinos Botopoulos
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e-Presentation | September 2016 | Learning time: 27 minutes
David Kirk
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e-Presentation | October 2015 | Learning time: 25 minutes
Prof Veerle Colaert
e-Presentation | October 2015 | Learning time: 63 minutes
Glenn Meyer
e-Presentation | October 2015 | Learning time: 20 minutes
Jean-Philippe Cavrois
e-Presentation | October 2015 | Learning time: 25 minutes
Jean-Philippe Cavrois
e-Presentation | October 2015 | Learning time: 31 minutes
Dr Rik Mellenbergh
e-Presentation | October 2015 | Learning time: 35 minutes
Dr Markus Lange
e-Presentation | October 2015 | Learning time: 29 minutes
Dr Andrew Henderson
e-Presentation | October 2015 | Learning time: 24 minutes
María Gracia Rubio de Casas
e-Presentation | November 2013 | Learning time: 48 minutes
Philippe Burgener
e-Presentation | November 2013 | Learning time: 43 minutes
Andrew Bates
e-Presentation | October 2013 | Learning time: 36 minutes
Moïse Bâ
Free e-presentation | October 2013 | Learning time: 29 minutes
Anne-George Kuzuhara
Free e-presentation | April 2013 | Learning time: 42 minutes
Prof Rosa M. Lastra
e-Presentation | April 2013 | Learning time: 40 minutes
Dr Petra Senkovic
e-Presentation | February 2013 | Learning time: 40 minutes
Prof Emilios Avgouleas
e-Presentation | February 2013 | Learning time: 36 minutes
Dr Bernhard Hörtnagl
e-Presentation | December 2012 | Learning time: 56 minutes
Prof Dr Kern Alexander
Free e-presentation | November 2012 | Learning time: 48 minutes
Larisa Dragomir
e-Presentation | November 2012 | Learning time: 38 minutes
Jose Moncada
e-Presentation | November 2012 | Learning time: 38 minutes
Kees Groffen
e-Presentation | November 2012 | Learning time: 48 minutes
Kirstene Baillie
e-Presentation | November 2012 | Learning time: 35 minutes
Michael Jackson