The AMF (Autorite des Marches Financiers) has recently published its supervisory priorities for 2025, highlighting several strategic areas to ensure compliance and resilience for financial players. This year, several themes will be central to AMF inspections, with heightened requirements and potential sanctions in case of non-compliance.
Among these priorities, key focus areas include:
- Compliance and internal control functions;
- Cybersecurity and AML/CFT will be subject to recurring supervision.
These developments confirm the need for asset management companies to adopt more structured compliance practices and tools that enhance transparency, traceability, and efficiency.
What Are the Main Challenges to Anticipate?
1. Establishing and Implementing Compliance and Internal Control Plans
The AMF requires asset management companies to implement permanent and periodic control plans aligned with their AMF licence and business activities. Leo RegTech helps asset management firms meet these requirements through:
- Control plans tailored to the company’s strategy and licensing framework, ensuring easy deployment and rigorous monitoring for compliance teams.
- A clear distinction between permanent and periodic control levels, preventing any interference between the two functions.
- Enhanced visibility for senior management, with real-time access to control status, recommendations, and corrective actions.
2. Monitoring of Recommendations
The AMF also states that “supervisory work will focus” on “the system for tracking recommendations and remediation requests issued by internal control functions.”
To address this, Leo RegTech has developed an efficient recommendation tracking module, accessible to operational teams, which enables:
- Assignment of recommendations to responsible persons, with automated reminders ensuring resolution before the internal target date.
- Real-time access for senior management to monitor the progress of recommendations, ensuring better oversight of corrective actions and faster response to identified compliance risks.
This aligns with the AMF’s emphasis on reporting to governing bodies, giving senior management real-time access to the compliance control plan and its recommendations.
3. AMF Reporting Obligations
AMF supervision will also focus on regulatory reporting. At Leo RegTech, we have developed two key features to help firms meet these obligations:
- A centralised AMF reporting calendar, allowing firms to schedule reminders and archive submitted documents to ensure full traceability of regulatory filings.
- An optimised FRARAC data management system, enabling automatic integration of control sheet data into the FRARAC register, simplifying data entry into ROSA.
4. Cybersecurity and AML/CFT Under Increased Scrutiny
The AMF has announced intensified supervision of cybersecurity in 2025. Compliance with DORA (Digital Operational Resilience Act) is now an essential requirement for asset management firms. Leo RegTech supports compliance efforts through:
- A risk classification report for cyber incident tracking.
- Resilience testing registers to document and assess preparedness.
- Training and awareness programs to ensure employees adopt best practices in cybersecurity.
Regarding AML/CFT (Anti-Money Laundering & Countering the Financing of Terrorism), our platform provides:
- Pre-configured control sheets covering AML/CFT obligations for both active and passive aspects.
- An annual AML/CFT report formatted for submission to the AMF.
- An e-learning AML/CFT module, including interactive courses, quizzes, and certification to ensure regulatory compliance.
The AMF’s 2025 priorities highlight the increasing need for robust compliance frameworks and proactive oversight.
Contact us today to learn how we can support your compliance and regulatory challenges in 2025.
