Heralding a New Era for European Money Market Funds

 

By Jason Straker, Head of Client Portfolio Management, EMEA, Global Liquidity, J. P. Morgan Asset Management

More than three years since they were first proposed, new regulations for the money market fund (MMF) industry in Europe are now in their final stages. While technical fine tuning of the text may still occur, we do not expect substantive changes and the implementation will likely take effect in late 2018. The clock has now started for investors in European MMFs to begin reviewing and understanding the different fund types that will be available, and to determine whether they will need to amend investment and accounting policies, systems and processes to take account of these changes. This article outlines some of the key changes for corporate investors, and some of the important issues they should be considering. Given the regulatory changes impacting corporate investors, specifically Basel III, it is also important that the issue of MMF reform not simply be viewed in isolation. 

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