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The Autorité des marchés Financiers (AMF) annonces the new composition of the Financial Skills Certification Board

March 8th, 2017 (0)
The mechanism for verifying the level of knowledge of employees of investment services providers relies on the services of the AMF and the Financial Skills Certification Board. The Certification Board is now under the chairmanship of Bernard Coupez. Summary ...

The Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) consults on the future implementation of new MiFID II provisions on payments for research

September 13th, 2016 (0)
Ahead of the application of the new European regulatory framework on markets in financial instruments (MiFID II), the Autorité des Marchés Financiers is reflecting on the implementation of new provisions on payment for research used by professionals providing investment ...

The Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) updates the list of unauthorised websites offering binary options trading

March 24th, 2015 (0)
The AMF is publishing a new updated list of websites offering binary options trading – last update was earlier this month – for which no authorised investment services provider could be clearly identified. The earlier version of this month is available ...

France to test its Central Bank digital currency in Q1 2020: Official

December 5th, 2019 (0)
The central bank of France plans to pilot a central bank digital currency (CBDC) for financial institutions in 2020. François Villeroy de Galhau, the governor of the Bank of France, announced that the bank will start testing the digital ...

Towards a new regime for crypto-assets in France; Optional visa regime for ICOs

April 25th, 2019 (0)
The PACTE draft Bill (Action Plan for Business Growth and Transformation) was adopted at its final reading in the French National Assembly on 11 April 2019. Once enacted, the law will establish a framework for fundraising via the issuance ...

Alert: Beware of unauthorised companies providing investment services

October 18th, 2018 (0)
The supervisory authorities of the United Kingdom (Financial Conduct Authority – FCA), Austria (Financial Market Authority – FMA), Switzerland (Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority – FINMA), Quebec (Autorité des Marchés Financiers), Hong Kong (Securities and Futures Commission – SFC) ...

AMF: Restriction measures on CFDs and binary options is to protect investors

September 12th, 2018 (0)
The French regulator Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF),  that regulates participants and products in France’s financial markets, reminds investors that the restriction measures for the CFDs and binary options agreed by ESMA is to protect them. In accordance an announcement ...

AMF reports websites offering crypto derivatives without authorisation

July 10th, 2018 (0)
The Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) and the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution (ACPR) would like to warn the public about a number of unauthorised online investment services in France for derivatives whose underlyings include crypto assets. ...

Closet index funds: The AMF proposes an alternative approach to those currently used in Europe

July 5th, 2018 (0)
The Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) analysed nearly 800 French funds using a method based on fund return and market data, which enables more funds to be examined than was previously possible. This approach does not relieve the regulator ...

Regulators in France warn for unauthorized websites and entities proposing Forex investments

June 25th, 2018 (0)
The Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) and the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution (ACPR) issued a warning to inform the public against the activities of several websites and entities proposing Forex investments without being authorized to do ...
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