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Waystone and its colleagues at CCL Compliance, a Waystone Group Company, review the UK Investment Firm Prudential Regime (IFPR) which will come into effect on January 1, 2022.  This will have a significant impact on UK MiFID investment firms who are authorised and regulated by the FCA that are currently subject to any part of the Capital Requirements Directive (CRD) and the Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR) including Investment Firms that are currently subject to BIPRU and GENPRU including:

Matched Principal Firms
Firms conducting combination of MiFID with UCITS & AIFMD activities categorised as CPMIs (Collective Portfolio Management Investment Firms)
Firms currently authorised as Exempt-CAD firms
Full scope’, ‘limited activity’ and ‘limited licence’ investment firms currently subject to IFPRU and CRR (MTF & OTF)

Listen to our prudential specialist to help you simplify and navigate these requirements, as well as providing advice on what analysis required to address them.

Niall McNamara gives us the benefits of launching an aviation fund. 

The CBI, together with the EU and international regulators, has recently placed an increased focus on cyber security requirements meaning that fund boards must now ensure that they are well equipped to manage a wide range of cyber security issues.

In a direct response, Waystone has established a dedicated Cyber Security Solution. Together with ISAS, a Waystone Group Company, we are now able to offer our clients a best-in-class cyber security offering. We know that board members are not cyber security experts, and we are able to offer them the assistance they need to meet their current obligations.
Please join us for a webinar as we discuss the reasons for, and implications of, an increase in cybercrime, our response to it and our best-in-class service offering.

Introducing ISAS – a Waystone Group Company
With over 75 years of combined Information Security and Data Protection experience, ISAS currently offers advisory services to C-Suite and board level, with a focus on cyber, information security and data protection issues. ISAS services are focused on helping clients assess information security threats, identify weaknesses, implement a sustainable and pragmatic programme of Information Security improvements and embed a security culture within an organisation. ISAS was the one of the first companies in Ireland to receive ISO 27701, the international standard for privacy information management in relation to GDPR and the Data Protection Act.

Working alongside large corporate organisations and within the public sector, ISAS has been pivotal over the past year in the work it has carried out with Ireland’s HSE, on the acceptance of the Irish COVID Tracker app. ISAS’ role focused on data protection and security with its work on the project being recognised as an InfoSec first within the industry. The high take-up rate of the app, that is largely recognised globally as the gold standard, is a reflection of industry and public confidence in the work carried out by ISAS.

To find out more about ISAS, a Waystone Group Company and its Cyber Security Offering and to hear more from our cyber security professionals, listen to our podcast:

Institutional provider of governance, risk and compliance services. Waystone is the leading provider of institutional governance, risk and compliance services to the asset management industry and Argus Global is delighted to have become part of the Waystone Group of Companies!

Partnering institutional investors, investment funds and asset managers Waystone builds, supports and protects investment structures and strategies worldwide. With over 20 years’ experience and a comprehensive range of specialist services to its name, Waystone is now supporting asset managers with more than US$1Tn in AUM.

Further to our recent communication in June of this year, regarding the creation of Waystone Compliance Services and Argus Global becoming a Waystone Group Company, we wanted to take the opportunity to introduce our clients and friends to some of the key team members at Waystone and provide some more information to you on the services that they can provide.

Panellists:

• Don Ebanks, Waystone
• Padraic Durkan, Waystone

Moderated by:

• Connie Wong, Waystone
• Nithi Genesan, Argus

Waystone was pleased to be hosting a webinar together with its friends at Argus Global, Simmons & Simmons and BNP Paribas on assisting asset managers looking to set-up a VCC in Singapore.

To understand the advantages of the VCC structure and the regulatory/licensing requirements in more details, please join us along with industry expert from the MAS for this webinar, followed by Q & A.

Panellists

• Nithi Genesan, Argus Global
• Jek-Aun Long, Partner, Simmons & Simmons
• Manoj Shetty, VP, Institutional Sales, BNP Paribas Securities Services
• Mriganko Mukerjee, Partner, Ernest & Young

Moderated by

• Connie Wong, Waystone

Further to our communication in June when we welcomed Argus Global, Singapore to the Waystone Group of Companies, we took the opportunity of introducing the Argus team to our clients and friends at Waystone and provided further details on how they can assist with Singapore regulatory compliance as well as getting set up in Singapore.

Are you a regulated fund manager looking to get setup in Singapore and take advantage of its jurisdictional advantages? Find out how Argus Global can help make this process a seamless one for you by taking care of the various licensing and regulatory requirements, creation of necessary policies and procures and outsourced compliance services.

Further to our communication in June, when we welcomed Argus Global, Singapore to the Waystone Group of Companies, we took the opportunity of introducing the Argus team to our clients and friends at Waystone and provided further detail on how they can assist your firm with its regulatory compliance as well as getting to set up in Singapore.

Topics included:

• The various types of compliance support available
• Assistance with internal audit and training
• Risk management
• AML and KYC

Join our team of seasoned specialists as they provided the latest updates to The International Co-operation (Economic Substance Law) Act, to include the latest ES Reporting Deadlines together with the most recent updates given by the Cayman Islands Department for International Tax Cooperation ("DITC")

Please join Waystone and Arendt as they provide to you the most common legal forms and structures for private assets, the role and responsibilities of an Alternative Investment Fund Manager (“AIFM”) as well as the ongoing operational and regulatory reporting requirements.

Please join our panelists for a lively discussion on crossover funds and why the sudden resurgence of them. Moderated by Matthew Brown, topics will focus on what the structuring considerations are for new and existing funds, operational considerations and participation in illiquid opportunities.