Insights

July 03, 2018

MiFID II has reached its six-month milestone. After gruelling and expensive implementation projects, many firms may have hoped to draw a line under the regulation roll-out. But the effects of the European Union’s directive are still being felt by financial firms and recent statements from the regulator suggest that scrutiny levels are set to rise.

June 28, 2018

When sworn in as Chairman in May 2017, Jay Clayton was expected by many to usher in a period of significant adjustment at

June 26, 2018

A GIPS-compliant presentation contains a number of required statistics. One such metric is the internal dispersion of individual portfolios within a composite. The GIPS standards do not prescribe a specific methodology (as long as the measure that is selected is applied consistently) and thus many firms struggle with this calculation.

June 22, 2018

ACA Aponix has been named Best Cyber Security Provider by The Drawdown‘s Private Equity Services Awards 2018.

June 22, 2018

ACA announced continued growth and expansion of West Coast private equity practice.

June 20, 2018

The FCA revealed at its recent Asset Management Conference that it will be undertaking a ‘diagnostic’ review of research and inducements at a range of organisations. It is expected that the FCA will be pragmatic in their assessment, taking a risk-based approach to analysing measures adopted to date. However, firms should be prepared to justify their approach should they be in scope of any such reviews.

June 19, 2018

The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) entered into force on 25 May 2018 after a last-minute scramble by organisations across the globe to establish their privacy programs and update privacy notices. Now that your firm has (hopefully) built its GDPR compliance program, what should you be doing to ensure ongoing compliance with the regulation?

June 18, 2018

In its 2018-19 business plan, the FCA make it one of its cross-sector priorities to finalise the rules and extend the Senior Managers & Certification Regime to all FCA-authorised firms. This blog outlines the current regulatory thinking in this area and what firms should be doing to prepare themselves for the looming changes.

June 13, 2018

As of June 1, 2018, registered investment companies are required to file Form N-CEN with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) on an annual basis. This new form replaces the semi-annual census reporting on Form N-SAR and must be filed within 75 days of a fund’s fiscal year end (with an exception for unit investment trusts, which must file within 75 days of calendar year end).

June 12, 2018

Key features include integration with ACA’s ComplianceAlpha®, single sign-on (SSO) support, and a redesigned user interface.