Tag: AIFMD
Jersey’s stability and expertise highlighted at leading Moscow conference
Delegates at a major financial services conference in Moscow last week heard about the opportunities Jersey offers as a stable international finance centre and the role it plays as a gateway to accessing markets around the world. Gary Hales, Jersey Finance’s Business Development Representative for Russia and the CIS, attended the two-day Moscow Financial Innovation [...]
Top London venue and thought leading commentary for funds conference attracts record levels of senior practitioners
More than 350 practitioners including leading lawyers, fund managers and other finance professionals were given an update on how Jersey intends to remain a first choice jurisdiction for international fund professionals at the annual Jersey Finance Funds Conference in London on March 7th. The event this year moved to the British Film Institute IMAX Theatre [...]
KPMG seminar urges businesses to pay heed to AIFMD
Regulation of the funds sector globally is likely to get tougher, an audience of funds professionals has been warned. KPMG brought members of its global and investment management leadership teams to the island for a breakfast seminar exploring the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) and what it called ‘the new regulatory frontier’. Jersey has [...]
Jersey cites business as usual following publication of AIFMD rules
Jersey is ideally placed to embrace the requirements of the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD), according to Jersey Finance and the Jersey Funds Association, following the publication of the European Commission’s Level II implementation rules this week (19th December). Acknowledging publication of the long-awaited rules, both Nigel Strachan, Chairman of the Jersey Funds Association, [...]
Jersey Minister and finance professionals join leading City practitioners to explore future of funds business
A heavyweight line up of finance and legal professionals will consider the future of the funds industry with a particular focus on how the markets will impact International Finance Centres at the annual funds conference hosted and organised by Jersey Finance in London next month. Two panel sessions will explore some of the key issues [...]
Jersey on course and confident with its AIFMD strategy
An expert panel of leading practitioners and regulators from Continental Europe, the UK and Jersey has given further confidence that the island’s strategy for engaging with the Alternative Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) is proving effective and that Jersey’s growing funds industry is on track to meet the criteria set out in the Directive and to [...]
