Operational Resilience / Outsourcing regulatory updates from France.
Asset management Regulatory developments The AMF clarifies its doctrine on several aspects relating to asset management companies
Supervision Asset management Journalists Investment management companies The Autorité des Marchés Financiers publishes the findings of its inspections of asset management companies' operational risk management
Sanctions & settlements MAR Compliance Journalists Investment services providers The AMF Enforcement Committee fines an investment services provider and its director a total of €850,000
Supervision Compliance Journalists Investment services providers The AMF publishes the findings of its inspections on the role and involvement of the compliance function at investment services providers
Strategy Supervision Institutional Other professionals Retail investors Journalists Investment services providers Investment management companies Listed companies and issuers The AMF sets its priorities for 2026 for...
Stress-testing Markets Asset management Journalists Investment services providers Investment management companies The Banque de France, the ACPR and the AMF launch a first system-wide stress test on interconnections within the financial system
Warning Identity theft The Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) is warning professionals about the extensive fraudulent and malicious use of its name engaging people into running a malicious computer program.
Asset management Collective investments Savings protection Crowdfunding: the AMF urges investors to exercise extreme caution due to the risks of project owner default or crowdfunding platform failure
Europe & international Innovation Financial services providers Operational resilience – The AMF applies the Joint Guidelines on the oversight cooperation and information exchange under the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA)
Asset management The AMF amends its Programme of Operations Guide for Asset Management Companies
Asset management Regulatory developments AMF amends its Programme of Operations Guide for Asset Management Companies
Regulatory developments Post-trading infrastructures Market infrastructures Cooperation Journalists AMF and Banque de France call for a well-anticipated move to T+1 Settlement Cycle
Supervision Asset management Journalists Investment management companies The AMF has published a summary of its SPOT inspections of financial management delegation arrangements at asset management companies
Appointment AMF activity Journalists Marie Seiller appointed Resources, Operations and Transformation Director at the Autorité des Marchés Financiers
Supervision Investment services Journalists Investment services providers AMF encourages investment services providers to strengthen their procedures for handling client complaints
Warning Identity theft Savings protection Warning The Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) is warning professionals about the extensive fraudulent and malicious use of its name, with links to various websites that could trick people into running a malicious computer program
Supervision Asset management Journalists Investment management companies The AMF publishes summary of third thematic inspection of asset management companies' cybersecurity systems
Marketing Savings protection Retail investors Professional investors Journalists The ACPR and AMF encourage financial institutions to continue their efforts to take account of the vulnerability of ageing clients
Regulatory developments Post-trading infrastructures Market infrastructures Central counterparties’ recovery and resolution: AMF complies with ESMA guidelines
Supervision Asset management Journalists Investment management companies The AMF examines the systems for valuation of the less liquid assets of UCITS and AIFs
Regulatory developments Post-trading infrastructures Market infrastructures Central counterparties’ recovery plan: AMF complies with ESMA guidelines on recovery plan indicators and scenarios
Savings protection Marketing Marketing of financial products to ageing populations: publication of an independent academic research report on customer relations and sales processes
Sanctions & settlements Journalists Investment management companies The AMF Enforcement Committee fines a portfolio asset management company for breaches of its professional obligations
The AMF Enforcement Committee imposed a €150,000 fine on **Inocap Gestion**, a portfolio asset management company, for multiple operational and compliance failures between 2022 and the enforcement decision date. This case demonstrates the AMF's enforcement priorities around liquidity risk management, market abuse detection systems, and anti-money laundering (AML/CFT) procedures—critical control areas that asset managers must operationalize effectively to avoid substantial penalties.
Asset management The AMF is supplementing its policy on liquidity management tools
Supervision UCIT Asset management Journalists Investment management companies The AMF calls on investment fund depositaries to strengthen their arrangements for the onboarding and monitoring of asset management companies
Asset management The AMF updates its doctrine to facilitate the adoption of liquidity management tools
Asset management War in Ukraine: the AMF alerts asset management companies
Market infrastructures Post-trading infrastructures Review of the central clearing framework in the EU: the AMF publishes a position paper
Asset management The AMF updates its policy on portfolio asset management company control systems and programmes of operations
Asset management Consequences of the Ukrainian crisis: the AMF alerts asset management companies
Short selling Equity Financial Crisis Executive & other private individuals Market Infrastructures Post-trade Infrastructures Professional investors Journalists French and Dutch market authorities publish a joint analysis of the...
AMF activity Focus on inDECx: the new tool to be used when interacting with the AMF during an inspection or investigation
Market infrastructures Benchmark Benchmarks: the AMF will apply ESMA Guidelines
Market infrastructures Post-trading infrastructures Settlement fails reporting: the AMF complies with ESMA guidelines
CSDR Supervision Settlement discipline: supervisory approach on the implementation of the CSDR provisions
Asset management Anti-money Laundering Money laundering and terrorist financing: the AMF applies EBA guidelines on risk factors
Supervision The AMF updates its investigation and inspection charters
Europe & international Cooperation The AMF and the European Central Bank (ECB) sign a supervisory cooperation arrangement
Warning Covid-19 Savings protection Financial Scams The AMF and the ACPR warn the public of the risks of scams in the context of the coronavirus epidemic
Warning Savings protection The Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) warns about persons using its name and logo and impersonating the Ombudsman and her deputy
Warning Savings protection Warning The Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) warns the public about the activities of individuals claiming to work for the AMF