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AI & Tech­no­logy are dis­rupt­ing the in­vest­ment funds sec­tor, and laws and reg­u­la­tions are be­ing amended to move to­wards a more di­git­al en­vir­on­ment for fin­an­cial in­sti­tu­tions, as­set man­agers and in­vestors.   Videos | Jar­gon Buster Wheth­er you are a fund man­ager or an in­vestor, gain a ba­sic in­sight in­to the most im­port­ant AI & Tech defin­i­tions. Watch CMS Funds Group short Jar­gon Buster videos.MiCA reg­u­la­tions­Fun­gible & Non-fun­gible as­set­sKnow­ing your cus­tom­er & Cus­tom­er due di­li­genceVir­tu­al as­sets & vir­tu­al as­set ser­vice pro­vider­sUtil­ity tokensSe­cur­ity & Pay­ment token­s­Token­isa­tionDLT & Block­chain Event | Will block­chain fi­nally dis­rupt the full funds value chain in 2023? (Nov. 2022) Not­with­stand­ing the mar­ket's high ex­pect­a­tions, pi­on­eer­ing pro­jects have faced dif­fi­culties for a num­ber of reas­ons in­clud­ing lack of clar­ity on reg­u­la­tions and a lim­ited num­ber of ready sec­tor par­ti­cipants. This may soon change. It seems that all pieces of the puzzle will come to­geth­er in 2023 and fi­nally un­lock the op­por­tun­it­ies.We have held roundtable dis­cus­sions in­volving lead­ing speak­ers at all levels of the fund value chain such as Tokeny, Let­z­Token, Op­por­tun­ity, Caceis, Q  Se­cur­it­ies, Nor­dic­Ninja VC and Montis.This event cov­ers: Funds token­isa­tion Funds in­vest­ing in crypto-as­sets Sec­ond­ary mar­ket and dis­tri­bu­tion­View our re­cord­ing.Down­load our write up. We­bin­ar | Token­isa­tion as a solu­tion (Jun. 2022)  Di­git­al­isa­tion is chan­ging the in­vest­ment mar­ket for in­vestors and fund man­agers. Vir­tu­al as­sets are grow­ing and in­sti­tu­tions are be­com­ing in­creas­ingly in­volved across a range of activ­it­ies from tra­di­tion­al fund in­vest­ments to as­sets such as real es­tate and crypto-as­sets.   This we­bin­ar cov­ers: The trends and op­por­tun­it­ies for di­git­al as­sets;The evolving reg­u­la­tion and in­fra­struc­ture;New products and uses; andWhat in­sti­tu­tion­al in­vestors and man­agers are do­ingView our re­cord­ing.Down­load our slides. We­bin­ar | All you need to know on funds token­isa­tion: Reas­ons, be­ne­fits, cur­rent pro­jects, land­scape & latest trends (Oct. 2021)  Token­isa­tion is now mak­ing it faster, easi­er, cheap­er, and more se­cure to launch, op­er­ate and close a fund. Token­isa­tion and di­git­al­isa­tion through Dis­trib­uted Ledger Tech­no­logy are at the centre of this op­por­tun­ity.Can funds be token­ised and how?Can tech­no­logy bring be­ne­fits?What are they? What are the op­por­tun­it­ies and risks?What are the lessоns learned from land­mark pro­jects?Down­load our present­a­tion. More videos on the im­pact of AI & Tech­no­logy on the Fund sec­tor.   CMS Funds Group videos fea­ture short dis­cus­sions between CMS law­yers and key play­ers from both the tech­no­logy and fin­an­cial ser­vices sec­tors, provid­ing a per­son­al in­sight in­to the di­git­al­isa­tion of funds and Fintech, with par­tic­u­lar fo­cus on the leg­al, reg­u­lat­ory and busi­ness as­pects of in­nov­a­tion and di­git­al­isa­tion of as­sets through token­isa­tion, block­chain and the use of tech­no­logy for in­vest­ments, ad­min­is­tra­tion and ESG re­port­ing. View our videos. 

The se­lec­tion of a vehicle has a num­ber of com­mon themes in­clud­ing the loc­a­tion of the as­sets, man­age­ment and the in­vestors. Funds tar­geted at loc­al in­vestors and mar­kets will fre­quently in­volve suit­able loc­al vehicles. The po­s­i­tion changes where the

 In­form­a­tion provided as of Decem­ber 2022.When im­ple­ment­ing the Al­tern­at­ive In­vest­ment Fund Man­agers Dir­ect­ive (“AIFMD”), some EU States have tightened or severely re­stric­ted their private place­ment re­gimes, which is im­port­ant when non-EU man­agers an

 In­form­a­tion provided as of 1 Decem­ber 2022.The EU Com­mis­sion pro­moted pass­port­ing rights as one of the key be­ne­fits for hedge, private equity, real es­tate and oth­er al­tern­at­ive in­vest­ment fund man­agers au­thor­ised un­der the Al­tern­at­ive In­vest­ment Fun

 In­form­a­tion provided as of 1 Decem­ber 2022The UCITS Dir­ect­ive was es­tab­lished to har­mon­ise re­tail col­lect­ive in­vest­ment schemes in the EU through the in­tro­duc­tion of a com­mon in­vest­ment vehicle known as a “UCITS”. One of the key be­ne­fits of the UCIT

CMS Funds Group Back to Ba­sics brief­ings in­tend to provide high level in­sights re­gard­ing funds fun­da­ment­als, funds vehicles and op­er­a­tion­al con­sid­er­a­tions New brief­ings are pub­lished on a reg­u­lar basis, cov­er­ing a spe­cif­ic jur­is­dic­tion or top­ic, and provid­ing ba­sic es­sen­tial tech­nic­al ex­plan­a­tions.