Asset managers and buyside analysts in France may soon face professional examinations and registration in the same way that their colleagues in the UK and US do, as the Autorité des Marchés Financiers, the country's market regulator, considers the introduction of such a regime.

An advisory group led by AMF board member Jean-Pierre Pinatton, who is also chairman of the supervisory board at the French private bank Oddo & Cie, has recommended the introduction of a single standardised investment qualification.