02/17/2021
EU’s parliament extending blacklist criteria
Any expansion of the blacklist must be made by the EU’s Economic and Financial Affairs Council following an investigation and recommendation by the EU’s Code of Conduct Group.
02/17/2021
Economists publish paper calling for average 2% inflation aim
02/17/2021
Meanwhile HM Treasury will be carrying out reviews of the listing regime, the post-EU financial services regulatory framework and the future of financial services in the UK.
02/17/2021
Piraeus Bank is one of Greece’s four largest banks. Its main shareholder is bank rescue fund HFSF (Hellenic Financial Stability Fund) with a 61% stake.
02/16/2021
Hundreds of advisers adopt PFS vulnerability charter
Advisers who sign up to the charter are expected to display the commitment on their website.
02/16/2021
"Julian and the team have a strong track record of unparalleled expertise and guidance in this space in addition to a quality client following."
02/16/2021
“They are set to revolutionise transactions such as buying a house, when people are often required to prove their identity multiple times to a bank, conveyancer or estate agent, and buying age-restricted goods online or in person.”
02/16/2021
The adviser told the commissioner they had been authorised between 2001 and 2018 when holding controlled function positions at their own firm.
02/16/2021
The government has outlined a two-phase process in order to allocate CCUS programme support, and a proposed timeline for the process.
02/16/2021
Technology, regulation, and the future of financial crime compliance
02/16/2021
The intensely hierarchical and clannish ’Ndrangheta have fanned out across the world from their home base in southern Italy, often using family-based chain migration to get footholds in new markets.
02/16/2021
Covid-19: BoE releases scenario for banks and building societies not part of concurrent stress testing
02/16/2021
In a bid to maintain the considerable ‘investment it has seen since the introduction of the scheme’
02/16/2021
Mattias Hedwall, head of Baker McKenzie’s global international commercial and trade group, identifies the legal and regulatory themes that will dominate the rest of 2021.
02/16/2021
Its launch will confirm Qatar as the first country in the Middle East to implement a country wide, digital, AML/CFT assessment, with a unique reporting function, as part of QFMA efforts to combat the causes of financial crime in the Qatar capital market.
02/16/2021
The acquisition will increase ZEDRA’s presence in the UK market
02/16/2021
The planned update of the current ePrivacy directive will be in the form of a regulation which will be directly applicable in all EU Member States
02/16/2021
Epiris Fund II (Fund II) has owned James Hay since 2019 when it bought the business as part of its acquisition of IFG Group plc.
02/16/2021
The FCA said the brothers had made a profit of about £142,000 from the alleged insider dealing.
02/15/2021
Employers: can you inoculate against racism?
The Court considered it legitimate to reflect on not only what steps had been taken by the employer but also how effective those steps were likely to be when they were taken and, in appropriate circumstances, how effective they proved to be in practice.