acarda receives ISO certification for information security

acarda has successfully passed this year’s certification audit in accordance with ISO 27001 for the scope “Software development and operation of SaaS solutions for the reporting of private and investment funds”.

On 8th April the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published the annual statistical report on EU Alternative investment funds2. In the report, ESMA calls for improvement of the data quality in the Annex IV reporting. In addition, the reports calls for the follow-up of the improvement of the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) by the European Commission, which was initiated in August 2020.

The updated Capital Requirements Regulation, known as CRR II and laid out in Regulation (EU) 2019/876, will come into force end of June 2021. While the update in general encompasses numerous topics in relation to Pillar I of the regulation, only some of them will be immediately relevant for the fund industry and associated service providers.

The regulatory dynamics on the capital market will remain high over the coming years. In 2022, following approval by the European Commission and the European Parliament, the new Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) for Key Information Documents (KIDs) of Packaged Retail Investment and Insurance-based Products (PRIIPs) with a revised performance calculation and different methods for calculating transaction costs will come into force.

Over the past few days we have been asked if acarda is affected by the security breaches related to Microsoft Exchange Server security vulnerabilities.