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NEW LIQUIDITY MANAGEMENT TOOLS REQUIREMENTS FOR UCITS AND OPEN ENDED AIFS COMING INTO EFFECT ON 16 APRIL 2026: DOES THE SCOPE OF LMTs EXTEND TO NON-EU OPEN ENDED AIFs?

Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) Directive 2011/61/EU · Art. Directive [EU] 2024/927 amending UCITS Directive and AIFM Directive with regard to the new liquidity management tools (LMTs) requirements for UCITS and open-ended AIFs coming into effect on 16 April 2026

ESMA Answer Published

Answered 2025-12-18

3461

(EU) No 2015/35 - supplementing Dir 2009/138/EC - taking up & pursuit of the business of Insurance and Reinsurance (SII) · Art. 184

EIOPA

Answered 2025-12-17

Definitions (Art. 2 IDD)

(EU) No 2016/97 - Insurance Distribution Directive · Art. 2

EIOPA

Answered 2025-12-17

Other DORA topics

(EU) 2022/2554 - Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) · Art. 2(3)(e)

EIOPA

Answered 2025-12-17

Obligation to apply the ICT risk managment (Art. 5-15) and/or the simplified ICT risk management framework for entities that hold two or more licences.

Regulation (EU) 2022/2554 - The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) · Art. Art. 5-15, Art. 16 DORA; Art. 12 (1) IFR + Art. 12 ECSPR

ESMA Answer Published

Answered 2025-12-17

Other DORA topics

(EU) 2022/2554 - Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) · Art. Article 2(1)(a)(n)(o)

EIOPA

Answered 2025-12-17

Key Functions

(EU) 2022/2554 - Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) · Art. 3

EIOPA

Answered 2025-12-17

Setting limit (daily and/or per transaction) for the execution of payment transaction by PSP

Directive 2015/2366/EU (PSD2) · Art. 68

EBA Final Q&A

Answered 2025-12-12

Notifications without a designated contact

ESGR - Regulation (EU) 2024/3005

ESMA Answer Published

Answered 2025-12-11

Obligation to consider issuer feedback

ESGR - Regulation (EU) 2024/3005

ESMA Answer Published

Answered 2025-12-11

Application of two working day notification period

ESGR - Regulation (EU) 2024/3005

ESMA Answer Published

Answered 2025-12-11

Position reporting

Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Directive 2014/65/EU- Secondary Markets

ESMA Answer Published

Answered 2025-12-11

Position reporting

Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Directive 2014/65/EU- Secondary Markets

ESMA Answer Published

Answered 2025-12-11

Scope of the term “trading platform for crypto-assets” in Article 78(5) of MiCA (executing client orders outside of a trading platform)

MiCA · Art. Article 78(5)

ESMA Answer Published

Answered 2025-12-08

Definition of ‘demand deposits’ for FINREP reporting

Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 430

EBA Final Q&A

Answered 2025-12-05

Appropriate reporting of unconditionally cancellable commitments (UCCs) subject to transitional arrangements of Article 495d in CR SA (COREP C_07.00)

Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 495d

EBA Final Q&A

Answered 2025-12-05

C 25.01 - CREDIT VALUATION ADJUSTMENT RISK (CVA) – Col 0090 - Instruction Clarification

Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 430

EBA Final Q&A

Answered 2025-12-05

In assessing whether the use of a particular benchmark or proxy is appropriate, potential assets in which the PRIIP invests, consistent with the investment policy, must be taken into account (point 16

PRIIPs

Joint Committee Final

Answered 2025-12-05

Point 11 of Annex II, Methodology for the presentation of risk, defines the return over each period as the natural logarithm of the ratio of the price at the market close at the end of the current per

PRIIPs

Joint Committee Final

Answered 2025-12-05

The main difference between Category 2 and Category 3 is, in accordance with Annex II Part 1 Point 5, whether the condition of "constant multiple" is fulfilled. In the event where a UCITs product has:

PRIIPs

Joint Committee Final

Answered 2025-12-05

According to point 16 (a) of Annex IV, the assessment of the appropriateness of a benchmark or proxy depends, inter alia, on the risk-return profile where the benchmark or proxy and the PRIIP fall int

PRIIPs

Joint Committee Final

Answered 2025-12-05

In the case of actively managed funds (meaning there is not a benchmark that can reflect the performance) that have been valued on a weekly basis for more than 10 years (i.e. that currently have only

PRIIPs

Joint Committee Final

Answered 2025-12-05

Listing Act implementation for secondary issuances of existing shares

Prospectus Regulation 2017/1129 · Art. Article 1, paragraph 4, points (da) and (db)

ESMA Answer Published

Answered 2025-12-04

Reporting Templates

(EU) 2023/894 - ITS with regard to the templates for the submission of information necessary for supervision · Art. N/A

EIOPA

Answered 2025-12-02

Packaged retail and insurance-based investment products (PRIIPs)

(EU) 2017/653 - PRIIPs Delegated Regulation for key information document · Art. Annex II

EIOPA

Answered 2025-12-02

Key information document (KID), Packaged retail and insurance-based investment products (PRIIPs)

(EU) 2017/653 - PRIIPs Delegated Regulation for key information document · Art. point 16 of Annex IV of the Delegated Regulation

EIOPA

Answered 2025-12-02

Key information document (KID), Packaged retail and insurance-based investment products (PRIIPs)

(EU) 2017/653 - PRIIPs Delegated Regulation for key information document · Art. Point 16 of Annex IV of the Delegated Regulation

EIOPA

Answered 2025-12-02

Reporting Templates

(EU) No 2015/2450 - templates for the submission of information to the supervisory authorities · Art. 35 of SII Directive

EIOPA

Answered 2025-12-02

Packaged retail and insurance-based investment products (PRIIPs)

(EU) 2017/653 - PRIIPs Delegated Regulation for key information document · Art. N/A

EIOPA

Answered 2025-12-02

Packaged retail and insurance-based investment products (PRIIPs)

(EU) 2017/653 - PRIIPs Delegated Regulation for key information document

EIOPA

Answered 2025-12-02

Minimum Capital Requirement (MCR), Reporting Templates

(EU) 2023/894 - ITS with regard to the templates for the submission of information necessary for supervision

EIOPA

Answered 2025-12-01

Reporting Templates

(EU) 2023/894 - ITS with regard to the templates for the submission of information necessary for supervision

EIOPA

Answered 2025-12-01

Application of the SME definition in specific cases

Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 5

EBA Final Q&A

Answered 2025-11-28

Other DORA topics

(EU) 2022/2554 - Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) · Art. 3

EIOPA

Answered 2025-11-21

ICT third-party risk management (DORA)

(EU) 2022/2554 - Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) · Art. N/A

EIOPA

Answered 2025-11-21

Other DORA topics

(EU) 2022/2554 - Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) · Art. 3

EIOPA

Answered 2025-11-21

Reporting Templates

(EU) 2023/894 - ITS with regard to the templates for the submission of information necessary for supervision

EIOPA

Answered 2025-11-21

Other DORA topics

(EU) 2022/2554 - Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) · Art. 3

EIOPA

Answered 2025-11-21

Advice (Art. 34 PEPP)

(EU) 2022/2554 - Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) · Art. n/a

EIOPA

Answered 2025-11-21

DORA 243 - 3352

(EU) 2022/2554 - Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) · Art. N/A

EIOPA

Answered 2025-11-21

Digital operational resilience testing (DORA), ICT risk management (DORA)

(EU) 2022/2554 - Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) · Art. 25 & Art. 16 TS - ICT systems acquisition, development, and maintenance

EIOPA

Answered 2025-11-21

DORA 235 - 3338

(EU) 2022/2554 - Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA)

EIOPA

Answered 2025-11-21

Other DORA topics

(EU) 2022/2554 - Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) · Art. 2

EIOPA

Answered 2025-11-21

ICT third-party risk management (DORA)

(EU) 2022/2554 - Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) · Art. 28(6) 30(3)(e)(i)

EIOPA

Answered 2025-11-21

ICT risk management (DORA)

(EU) 2022/2554 - Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) · Art. N/A

EIOPA

Answered 2025-11-21

Digital operational resilience testing (DORA)

(EU) 2022/2554 - Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) · Art. 27 and 28

EIOPA

Answered 2025-11-21

1182

(EU) No 2015/2450 - templates for the submission of information to the supervisory authorities · Art. 35, 163

EIOPA

Answered 2025-11-21

Register of Information (DORA)

(EU) 2022/2554 - Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) · Art. N/A

EIOPA

Answered 2025-11-20

ICT third-party risk management (DORA)

(EU) 2022/2554 - Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) · Art. 30

EIOPA

Answered 2025-11-20

Other DORA topics

(EU) 2022/2554 - Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) · Art. Article 13

EIOPA

Answered 2025-11-20

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