On Wednesday 9 November, the European Commission is to propose a postponement, from January 2017 to January 2018, of the entry into force of the 'Priips' regulation (1286/14) on the pre-contractual information that retail investors may use to compare certain financial products, such as the UCITS investment fund or insurance products.
A grace period – which was made necessary when, in mid-September, the European Parliament rejected the proposed implementing measures of the regulation (see...