Central Bank of Ireland publishes Markets Update No 5 of 2026

On 5 May 2026, the Central Bank of Ireland (the Central Bank) published Issue No 5 2026 of its regular Market Update, in which it sets out alerts of interest to Irish regulated firms and other market participants. For our summaries of the previous issues, please see the right-hand column of this page.

The new update contains one item:

Feedback Statement for CP 162 and revised AIF Rulebook.

On 5 May 2026, the Central Bank published

• a Feedback Statement to Consultation Paper 162 which set out proposed amendments to the Central Bank’s AIF Rulebook and
• a revised AIF Rulebook.

CP162 ran from 9 September to 5 November 2025 and set out the Central Bank’s proposed amendments to its AIF Rulebook. (The CP was published on the same day as, and in parallel with, CP161, which looked at changes to the Central Bank’s UCITS Regulations and Guidance on performance fees for UCITS and certain Retail Investor AIFs.)

Our high level summary of CPs 161 and 162 can be found here and a detailed client note (which looks at twelve key topics covered by the proposals in CP162, along with some of the additional technical changes put forward) can be found here.

Overall, 15 responses to CP162 were received and these were generally supportive of the Central Bank’s proposals. The Central Bank has made some changes to the matters on which it consulted to take account of points raised by respondents. It has also included some further minor clarifications in the AIF Rulebook.