Eiopa signals soft-launch of Priips

Regulator looking at solutions for firms that can't meet 'very challenging' timeline

Eiopa: aiming to ease transition

Regulators are preparing measures to protect structured products issuers from sanctions if they miss the European Union's packaged retail and insurance-based investment products (Priips) December 31 deadline.

Issuers have sweated over the deadline for months, as key planks of the reforms were hit by delays. The publication of regulatory technical standards (RTS) was pushed back from March to April this year, before being adopted as a delegated act by the European Commission on June 30. They are