A panel of market participants discussed upcoming revisions and updates to major investment directives, whilst looking at the differences between the EU and UK rules, during the SRP Europe 2023 Conference in London.
The panel started off discussing the retail investment strategy, action point eight of the European Commission’s capital markets union plan which intends to build retail investor trust, participation and place in the retail capital markets. “It has a rather broad scope, and it potentially covers quite a few regulations in the investor protection area,” said Fredrik Bonthron, chief economist of the Swedish securities markets association (SSMA). The ban on inducements as it is