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Pinsent Masons: technology goes forward in both Luxembourg and the Netherlands
Throughout the financial sector, technology is an important topic and leads to major changes in procedures, with financial companies themselves and also with the regulators. The new rules in Luxembourg for prospectuses should make life easier. In the Netherlands, the regulators lay a focus on the Digital Operations Resilience Act which gives an additional layer of supervision.
Pinsent Masons: AFM publishes ‘AIFM-Light market picture’
The Dutch regulator the Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM) has investigated managers who make use of an exception to the licensing obligation in the Dutch Financial Supervision Act (Wft) and only fall within the ambit of a registration obligation. These are the “small” managers (the “light managers”).