Georgios Pantelias

Paying for investment research: welcome rule relaxations for EU and UK firms

As part of wider moves to enhance overall competitiveness, the EU and the UK are both making changes to legislation and regulation to boost their jurisdiction’s attractiveness for listing and capital-raising. This includes proposals to loosen the existing research unbundling rules in an effort to increase the amount and quality of available research on companies, along with other measures to ensure visibility of that research so that potential investors have access to a wider range of investment opportunities. The research-related proposals aim ultimately to improve liquidity and growth prospects for small and medium sized (SME) companies.