Two liquidity management tools per fund, detailed delegation reporting, periodic due diligence on delegates, and two full-time EU-resident people directing the business. All of it continues after the implementation project has closed.
The liquidity requirement comes with a number: every open-ended fund must select and maintain at least two tools from the harmonised list, which includes redemption gates, notice periods and swing pricing. Keeping them means being able to show they remain appropriate for the fund's strategy.
Managers must also demonstrate genuine resources at licensing, provide regular and more detailed information on delegation arrangements including sub-delegation, and run periodic due diligence on delegates. Meanwhile the sustainability disclosure regime is being rewritten around three voluntary categories at a seventy per cent threshold, with trilogues from September 2026 and realistic application in 2028 or 2029.
Alongside the fund rules sits a second set that reaches every financial institution, each with its own edge for a fund manager. The AI Act has no high-risk category specific to asset management. GDPR erasure rights collide with mandatory retention periods, so the right to be forgotten is often legally unavailable and has to be explained rather than ignored. Anti-money-laundering rules bite hardest on beneficial ownership through layered structures, while DORA generally spares smaller managers from threat-led testing.
The sustainability disclosure rewrite is still at scanning: proposed, in negotiation and years from applying, but it will decide which funds keep a label. Loan origination is design work for the managers who do it, and the liquidity tools are implementation against a date that has already passed. Delegation has become a question of evidence, and fund naming sits at assurance because a name has to keep qualifying after launch.
Every regulatory change moves through the same regulatory change lifecycle. No matter where each rule sits, Helia can help your teams.
Trilogues from Sept 2026
Whether a fund can carry a category depends on thresholds that are still being argued over, and on data its investee companies publish. Product decisions taken now are bets on where that lands.
Applies now
Managers who originated loans without a formal framework now need one, with retention and diversification built in and conflicts addressed, and the structure of existing funds may not survive the test.
In force since April 2026
Choosing the tools was a one-off decision. Showing they remain appropriate for the strategy, and that the calibration behind them is current, is an ongoing obligation.
Reporting expanded
Delegation was a structuring decision. It is now a reporting obligation with evidence attached, and the due diligence has to be periodic and documented rather than done once at appointment.
Guidelines in force
A name that qualified at launch has to keep qualifying as the portfolio moves. The check is continuous, and the consequence of failing it is a rename in front of investors.
Helia reads regulatory text and pulls out what is actually being asked for. It takes the documents you already have, whether policies or procedures, and assesses them against those requirements. It maps your controls to the requirements they are meant to satisfy and shows where nothing covers them. And it keeps the trail intact, so any conclusion can be followed back to the wording it came from.
We built Helia for the stretch between reading a regulation and reporting on it, because that is where most of the effort in a regulatory change goes.
The judgement calls stay with you. Our senior practitioners, who have run this inside regulated institutions, take the first assessments with your team, so you see how conclusions are reached and hold the method afterwards.
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