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    April 10, 2023
    • Investor Services
    The impacts of shortened settlement cycles in the U.S. are critical to asset managers and banks globally. What can you do now to prepare for the change?
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    March 28, 2023
    • Investor Services
    The goal of the European Long-Term Investment Fund to provide much needed funding for small and mid-cap private companies has not been met yet, but a redesign could change that, write Holly Gardner and Adrian Whelan
  • Dynamic wave of glowing particles
    March 06, 2023
    • Investor Services
    For asset managers, ensuring that their distribution, the experience they give to their clients, and their product diversification are fit for operating in a new environment is critical. At the inaugural BBH Insights Exchange event, industry experts discussed challenges that firms may face and how they can adapt.
  • Birds eve view of the sea with abstract ESG icons and numbers featured over the top
    December 15, 2022
    • Investor Services
    Participants in our latest webinar heard that to retain and attract investors, it is critical that a manager aligns its people, policies and procedures to support its ESG principles.
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    November 08, 2022
    • Investor Services
    What’s needed before a region with 41 trading exchanges and 31 settlement infrastructures can consider a shorter settlement cycle?
  • October 25, 2022
    • Investor Services
    The U.K.’s Long Term Asset Fund initiative could be a strategic solution for pension schemes amid future volatility.
  • Steel brain with wires and cables. 3D illustration
    September 26, 2022
    • Investor Services
    What is now needed to meet the next generation of ESG investors? Adrian Whelan unpicks the title of a session at Sibos, where he will be speaking next month.
  • Postcard collage from London in England, United Kingdom
    September 01, 2022
    The U.K. Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has opened a public consultation which seeks to reshape the rules around marketing of Long-Term Asset Funds (LTAFs) to allow access to a wider group of retail investors and pension schemes.
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    August 23, 2022
    • Investor Services
    Banks, asset managers and insurers operating in the EU will be subject to new rules intended to boost the security and resiliency of the financial sector. Adrian Whelan maps out what asset managers need to know.
  • Aerial view of heavy truck on a narrow twisting road
    July 20, 2022
    • Investor Services
    Managers and distributors are increasingly obligated to engage investors on their ESG appetite. Adrian Whelan sets out the MiFID II Sustainability Preferences and other factors that firms should consider.
  • Drone view at windpark westermeerdijk a windmill farm in the lake IJsselmeer the biggest in the Netherlands
    June 24, 2022
    • Investor Services
    Simo Liu sits down with Adrian Whelan to discuss three ESG themes including global taxonomies, corporate governance and point of sale rules.
  • Cropped image of an unrecognizable businessman pulling out his empty pocket
    June 13, 2022
    • Investor Services
    With the curtailment of trading in Belarusian, Russian and Ukrainian securities, fund liquidity is high on asset managers’ agendas. BBH’s Adrian Whelan addresses some of the key questions around use of side-pockets for UCITS funds.
  • Landscape of beautiful sunset in the desert. View of high sandstone hills and dramatic cloudy sky
    April 27, 2022
    • Investor Services
    Regulatory reporting proposals could have significant consequences for private fund advisors, writes BBH’s Adrian Whelan.
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    April 25, 2022
    • Investor Services
    BBH’s Adrian Whelan looks at three significant points from the SEC’s recent proposals for new cybersecurity related rules.
  • Aerial view green forest foliage summer warm sunlight. Natural green background.
    March 31, 2022
    • Investor Services
    BBH’s Adrian Whelan looks at the primary proposals from one of the most significant U.S. climate related policy actions to date and the practical implications for asset managers.
  • 2022 Regulatory Field Guide: Revisiting the Past, Managing the Present, Embracing the Future
    February 09, 2022
    • Investor Services
    The regulatory environment across the globe is as dynamic as any time in the last decade. We bring you this guide to light a path on your regulatory journey for 2022.
  • Revisiting the Past: U.S. Securities Settlement

    February 09, 2022
    • Investor Services
    Following dramatic market volatility events, the U.S. post-trade industry is deftly mobilizing to move securities settlement cycles to T+1. Adrian Whelan and Derek Coyle explore why shortening the U.S. settlement cycle is so significant to asset managers globally.
  • Revisiting the Past: EU Capital Markets Union

    February 09, 2022
    • Investor Services
    Plato is credited with famously saying “necessity is the mother of invention”. This phrase couldn’t be more appropriate for the European Union’s capital markets as they head into 2022. Olena Pochekaylo explains why.
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    Revisiting the Past: Alternative Funds

    February 09, 2022
    • Investor Services
    New revisions to the European Long-Term Investment Fund remove many of the regulatory and structural impediments managers face when utilizing them currently and place them neatly into the EU regulated fund structure toolkit, writes Adrian Whelan.
  • Managing the Present: U.K. Alternative Funds

    February 09, 2022
    • Investor Services
    With a growing focus in asset management on retail investor access to less liquid alternative investment funds, the U.K has mobilized the Long-Term Asset Fund (LTAF). Lata Vyas and Andrew Ritchie explain why 2022 could be a big year for this special purpose investment vehicle.
  • Managing the Present: The SEC Agenda

    February 09, 2022
    • Investor Services
    As the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission pursues an agenda more aggressive than we have seen from the market watchdog in decades, its leader must find a delicate balance between fostering market growth and innovation with investor protection principles.
  • Managing the Present: US Regulations 2022

    February 09, 2022
    • Investor Services
    BBH’s Adrian Whelan sat down with Amy Matsuo, Principal and Leader of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) and Regulatory Insights at KPMG, to discuss the main regulatory drivers for the U.S. asset management market in 2022.
  • Embracing the Future: Rule fragmentation and inconsistent definitions

    February 09, 2022
    • Investor Services
    Adrian Whelan looks at the top 10 themes in environmental, social and governance investing that could influence rulemaking in 2022.
  • Embracing the Future: Digital Currency

    • Investor Services
    Rules governing crypto, stable coins, and central bank digital currencies look set to shift gears in 2022 as regulators enter the new money fast lane, write John Siena, Tim Bosco and Ingrid Mosquera.
  • Regulatory Field Guide: LIBOR Leftovers

    Embracing the Future: LIBOR Transition

    February 09, 2022
    • Investor Services
    Financial institutions have had a lot on their plates in bidding farewell to the most popular interest rate benchmark. Sinead McIntosh assesses industry progress in moving away from LIBOR to alternative risk-free rates and the extent to which it will consume the regulatory agenda in 2022.
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    Revisiting the Past: Global AML

    February 09, 2022
    • Investor Services
    Global asset managers and policymakers remain engaged on the eternal areas of anti-money laundering regulatory policymaking. Adrian Whelan reviews the latest developments.
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    Revisiting the Past: AIFMD

    February 09, 2022
    • Investor Services
    With the outcome of a review of for alternative investment fund managers pending, Ainun Ayub and Adrian Whelan assess whether the proposals spell a feel-good blockbuster or a more dramatic follow-up.
  • Black and white image of a man pulling his hand luggage across a train platform

    Revisiting the Past: PRIIPs, CSDR, and SFDR

    February 09, 2022
    • Investor Services
    Key deferrals of regulatory implementations in Europe have afforded asset managers some welcome respite, but much preparatory work remains for each.
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    Managing the Present: Securities Settlement

    • Investor Services
    As regulation harmonizing how central securities depositories in Europe operate continues to evolve, it’s impact will likely be felt by all participants in the post-trade chain in 2022 and beyond, write Sinead McIntosh, Derek Coyle and John Siena.
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    Embracing the Future: Global Regulations

    February 09, 2022
    • Investor Services
    Martin Moloney, Secretary General of the International Organization of Securities Commissions, talks to BBH’s Adrian Whelan about the key issues and trends shaping the global regulatory landscape in 2022.
  • Location marking with a pin on a map with routes
    November 18, 2021
    • Investor Services
    As the U.K. embarks on its post-Brexit regulatory journey, ESG is an area of policymaking where the rules are being framed to be similar but not the same as those of the E.U. These areas of divergence will occupy many asset managers’ minds as they look to compare and contrast rulesets, writes Adrian Whelan.
  • Aerial view of morning mist at tropical rainforest mountain, background of forest and mist
    October 20, 2021
    • Investor Services
    The U.S. Department of Labor has taken a significant step towards the integration of environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations in pensions management. BBH’s Adrian Whelan sets out how the proposed rule reverses previous barriers to investment.
  • Image of a business woman thinking with blue abstract graphics around her face
    August 23, 2021
    • Investor Services
    SPACs have existed in the United States since the early 2000s, but they have enjoyed a resurgence in popularity recently, and in spite of a slight cooling of SPAC launches they remain one of the most discussed trends across the market. Here we take a whistle-stop tour through the various aspects of the rise of the SPAC.
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    August 09, 2021
    • Investor Services
    In a recent speech, SEC Chairmen Gensler returned to a corner of the market he knows extremely well, speaking at length about security-based swaps (SBS) reform.
  • 3d Wooden Puzzle Cube
    August 02, 2021
    • Investor Services
    The EU’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) is unquestionably one of the most complex implementation projects asset managers operating in Europe have ever been tasked with.
  • Paris cityscape; Eiffel Tower
    June 29, 2021
    • Investor Services
    ESMA's recently released Annual Report covers several areas of focus for regulators in the next few years to come. Here, we break down the top 10 things to know about the future of ESMA.
  • Pencil macro: To mark with a cross.
    June 21, 2021
    • Investor Services
    In this article, we explain how managers based in Greater China can look to optimize their foreign exchange process and oversight.

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