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AMF: Restriction measures on CFDs and binary options is to protect investors
September 12th, 2018
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
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
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 ...
AMF warns retail investors and public about aggressive “boiler room”
June 5th, 2018
The Autorite des Marches Financiers (AMF), an independent public authority in France responsible for ensuring that savings invested in financial products are protected, that investors are provided with adequate information and supervising the orderly operation of markets, has issued ...
How has the European equity market responded and performed in the wake of MiFID II?; AMF Chairman
May 22nd, 2018
Robert Ophèle, the Chairman of the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) that regulates participants and products in France’s financial markets, gave a speech during TradeTech Europe 2018 – 25 April 2018 about “How has the European equity market responded ...
ESMA publishes a negative opinion on an accepted market practice on liquidity contracts notified by AMF
April 18th, 2018
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published an opinion on the Accepted Market Practice (AMP) notified by the French Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF), which replaces the AMP under the Market Abuse Directive (MAD) established in March ...
The AMF warns for unauthorized websites offering diamond investments
December 21st, 2017
The Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF), an independent public authority in France responsible for ensuring that savings invested in financial products are protected, has issued today a public warning against the activities of websites offering diamond investments, for which ...
AMF lifts the ban against 24option from providing financial services in France
June 27th, 2017
The Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) has issued an announcement to inform that the Authority lifts the ban against Rodeler limited (“24option”) from providing financial services in France. According the announcement: Because of the non-compliance with certain professional obligations ...
AMF consults on changes to its General Regulation ahead of MiFID II
May 11th, 2017
As part of the reform of its markets in financial instruments directive, on 7 April 2016 the European Commission adopted a delegated directive that sets out provisions on the safeguarding of financial instruments and funds, product governance and inducements. ...
The AMF publishes a draft recommendation on the performance simulations offered to investors
April 4th, 2017
The Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) is publishing a summary of the feedback submitted in response to the public consultation launched in November 2016 on the future performance simulations offered to retail investors. It is also publishing a draft ...
