Press Release - ESMA Calls for Modification of UCITS Directive
MAY 22, 2015
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published an Opinion to the European Union (EU) institutions on the impact of EMIR on UCITS. In the opinion, ESMA calls for a modification of the UCITS Directive to take into account the clearing obligations for certain types of over-the-counter (OTC) financial derivative transactions under EMIR.
Indeed, under EMIR, certain OTC financial derivative transactions are subject to the clearing obligation. Therefore, the question arises as to how the limits on counterparty risk in OTC financial derivative transactions that are centrally cleared should be calculated by UCITS and whether UCITS should...
