05/27/2021
The proposals are for MSPs to be required to meet the current Cyber Assessment Framework, 14 cybersecurity principles which currently apply to operators of essential services under the NIS Regulations.
05/27/2021
The diagrams below outline key responsibilities of the board and executive management.
05/27/2021
Feedback received will help inform policy development ahead of the legislation that will bring this compulsion into effect.
05/26/2021
The Court has refused to sanction the Scheme of Arrangement proposed by Amigo (the Scheme). The FCA had objected to the proposed Scheme and is now carefully considering the Court’s judgment and Amigo’s response.
05/26/2021
The governing law of your contract is also an important factor.
05/26/2021
Ex-Dechert lawyer turned on client once fees dried up, court told
05/26/2021
The limits to regulation were laid bare three years ago when the stock exchange listed En+, an energy company associated with the Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska.
05/26/2021
FORMER US president Donald Trump could yet be facing a Scottish investigation into the source of the wealth that he used to buy his two golf resorts in this country.
05/26/2021
The FCA has stopped ICC Intercertus from conducting any regulated or marketing activities in the UK and has directed it to take all reasonable steps to stop other members of the EverFX Group doing the same.
05/26/2021
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF), responding to the APG at its February 2016 plenary session in Paris, placed Vanuatu on its dreaded grey list.
05/26/2021
The FCA has acted to stop a Cypriot firm and other members of its group from offering high risk contracts for differences (CFDs) to UK customers by issuing a first supervisory notice.
05/25/2021
Denmark’s financial regulator sees six ways to help banks identify high-risk activity.
05/25/2021
Italy's central bank has ordered the liquidation of Milan bank Aigis Banca
05/25/2021
Due Diligence: the Report recommends additional guidance specifying (i) how adequacy and proportionality could be achieved in the context of due-diligence (in particular for STS transactions); and (ii) how investors are expected to perform due-diligence a
05/25/2021
There have been a number of developments in merger control in 2020 and Q1 2021.
05/25/2021
Digital transformation and the application of innovative technologies in the EU financial sector bring a host of opportunities, including better financial services to a wider range of businesses and investors, possibly at a lower cost.
05/25/2021
HM Treasury (HMT) has published a Joint Statement on the fourth meeting of the U.S.-UK Financial Regulatory Working Group on 20 May 2021.
05/24/2021
UK property boom set to roll on as savings unlocked
House prices rose at the fastest annual rate in nearly 14 years in March, official data showed on Thursday, after a tax cut and a mortgage guarantee scheme for first-time buyers further stoked a sharp surge in activity
05/24/2021
NatWest faces 'significant' damage to reputation as it becomes first bank to appear in court on criminal charges over money laundering, lawyers say
The firm is alleged to have deposited £365million – £264million in cash – in 'increasingly large' sums from November 2011 to October 2016.
05/24/2021
European Commission recommends rejection of UK’s application to accede to 2007 Lugano Convention
The Convention covers jurisdiction, and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters, between its contracting states.