Fund groups 'not ready' to meet PRIIPs deadline: research

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With one of the final barriers to implementing the changes to the PRIIPs regulation now removed, research from FE fundinfo has found that fund groups will still struggle to meet the end of year deadline. In a white paper, Preparing for PRIIPs, which is published today by the fund data and technology company, it is revealed that despite EIOPA's final agreement to the outstanding Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) in February, one in eight fund groups believe they will not meet the 31 December deadline. A further 38% meanwhile revealed they have yet to even start their PRIIPs KID product...

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Christopher Copper-Ind is editor-in-chief of International Investment. Before this, he was editorial director of The Business Year, from 2014 to 2017.