PRIIPs delay: Breaking down the Commission's announcement

Implementation now 1 January 2018

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This week has seen two announcements - one political across the Atlantic, one regulatory across the Channel - that will have a big impact on the investment industry, writes Mikkel Bates

One, in the US, was a huge surprise to many, while the other, in Brussels, had been widely predicted. It is the second one I will consider here. Let's look in more detail at the Commission's press release about the one-year's delay to the launch of PRIIPs and see what was said and, equally importantly, what was not said. "...the European Commission believes that the PRIIPs Regulation is sufficiently clear as well as directly applicable on its own...

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