Category: Regulations

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has today set out a new employment offer designed to reward strong, consistent performance, aid career development and close pay gaps.  This follows an extensive, wide-ranging and comprehensive consultation with all FCA colleagues and the FCA’s Staff Consultative Committee.  The changes, including updates to the proposals consulted upon, will mean […]

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is establishing a new advisory committee on secondary markets and is looking for expressions of interest from market participants to join. The purpose of the Committee is to support our wholesale secondary markets work in equities, derivatives, fixed income and commodity derivatives. The Committee’s task will be to: help develop […]

From today, new restrictions will apply to claims management companies (CMCs) to prevent them from charging excessive fees to consumers owed compensation from financial services firms.  Under new Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) rules in force from today, the maximum consumers can be charged will depend on how much redress they are due. For example, if […]

Jean-Paul Servais, Chairman of the Financial Services and Markets Authority (FSMA), has been re-elected vice-chairman of IOSCO, the international organization of financial market supervisors, as well chairman of that body’s European Regional Committee. At the annual general meeting held in Budapest, IOSCO re-elected Jean-Paul Servais vice-chairman of the organization for another two-year term. The chairman […]

ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE FINANCIAL SERVICES AND MARKETS AUTHORITY, PUBLISHED IN APPLICATION OF ARTICLE 78 OF THE LAW OF 21 NOVEMBER 2017 Trading in the financial instruments of ONTEX, ISIN BE0974276082 on Euronext Brussels will re-open on 03/05/2018 at 14:00 CET. Source: FSMA

ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE FINANCIAL SERVICES AND MARKETS AUTHORITY, PUBLISHED IN APPLICATION OF ARTICLE 78 OF THE LAW OF 21 NOVEMBER 2017 Trading in the financial instruments of ONTEX, ISIN BE0974276082, on Euronext Brussels is suspended from 03/05/2018 at 13:10 CET until the publication of a press release.   Source: FSMA

The FSMA has published two additional opinions (available in French or Dutch only) regarding the possibility of converting a pension in the form of a capital sum into a benefit. In the FSMA’s opinion, a pension commitment or pension agreement that pays out the capital in the form of a lump sum may provide that the […]

ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE FINANCIAL SERVICES AND MARKETS AUTHORITY, PUBLISHED IN APPLICATION OF ARTICLE 78 OF THE LAW OF 21 NOVEMBER 2017 Trading in the financial instruments of UMICORE, ISIN BE0974320526, on Euronext Brussels is suspended from 26/04/2018 at 16:22 CET until the publication of a press release. Trading will resume at 17:00 CET.     […]

This press release is not available in English, please consult the French or Dutch site. Source: FSMA

ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE FINANCIAL SERVICES AND MARKETS AUTHORITY, PUBLISHED IN APPLICATION OF ARTICLE 78 OF THE LAW OF 21 NOVEMBER 2017 Trading in the financial instruments of Retail Estates, ISIN BE0003720340, on Euronext Brussels will re-open on 25/04/2018 at 13:00 CET.   Source: FSMA