European Commission will not debate PRIIPs delay until 22 November

The move, announced in the Commission's latest agenda, has been widely anticipated by the industry since the European parliament rejected the regulatory technical standards (RTS) for PRIIPs Key Information Documents (KIDs) at the end of August. But with PRIIPs legislation due to be implemented on 31 December 2016, just over a month after the meeting, product providers could be left to prepare for the directive with no official guidelines for their compliance if a delay is not announced. A one-year delay to the directive has already been backed by more than 20 member countries of the E...