{"id":53535,"date":"2016-07-20T09:39:38","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T13:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=53535"},"modified":"2016-07-20T09:39:38","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T13:39:38","slug":"eu-watchdog-backs-passport-for-u-s-hedge-funds-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2016\/eu-watchdog-backs-passport-for-u-s-hedge-funds-in-europe.html","title":{"rendered":"EU Watchdog Backs &#8216;Passport&#8217; For U.S. Hedge Funds in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Hedge funds from the United States, Singapore and Hong Kong should be allowed to market themselves in the European Union, the bloc&#8217;s financial watchdog said on Tuesday. The long-delayed recommendation from the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) to the EU&#8217;s executive European Commission for endorsement is a taste of what Britain&#8217;s financial services sector might face after it leaves the bloc.<\/p>\n<p>A new EU law requires ESMA to say for the first time if rules for hedge funds and other alternative investments such as private equity in non-EU countries are as strict as those in the 28-country bloc.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/uk-eu-hedgefunds-regulations-hedge-idUSKCN0ZZ0P8\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Hedge funds from the United States, Singapore and Hong Kong should be allowed to market themselves in the European Union, the bloc&#8217;s financial watchdog said on Tuesday. The long-delayed recommendation from the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53536,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53535\/revisions\/53536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}