11/16/2021
Rabobank faces punishment over customer anti-money-laundering checks
Both banks were warned by the DNB about their weak enforcement of anti-money-laundering practices ahead of the settlements.
Legal, Regulation & Compliance
11/16/2021
Financial Regulation: Daily Update
It also sets out the FCA's disclosure expectations and supervisory strategy, and includes a consultation on a new technical note on environmental, social and governance and sustainability.
11/16/2021
High court Rectifies pension increase provisions in Mitchells & Butlers Pension Plan
In another aspect of the case, Mr Justice Trower declared that the amendments by which the pension increase provisions were introduced should be set aside.
11/16/2021
Daily Legal Update
This draft heat network delivery plan sets out how the provisions of the Heat Networks (Scotland) Act 2021, and related policies, will contribute to increased heat networks across Scotland.
11/16/2021
‘Right to rest’: inside Portugal’s bold bid to regulate remote working
Newly passed leglisation bans bosses from contacting employees outside work hours
11/16/2021
Ground-breaking FRC report sets out what it expects from audit firms to deliver high quality audit
To support the delivery of high-quality audit, the report provides a range of examples of good practice identified by the FRC over recent audit quality inspections and supervision work.
11/16/2021
London wealth boutique brought down by AR's pension transfers
Meyado Private Wealth Management London was prevented from taking on new clients in March this year.
11/15/2021
FCA Launches The Long Term Asset Fund To Encourage Investment In Illiuid Assets
Until now, some investors have been unable, or unwilling, to invest in long term illiquid assets even though these assets could meet their investment goals.
11/15/2021
FCA promises to bring down ballooning FSCS levy
The Financial Conduct Authority is preparing plans to stabilise and reduce the Financial Services Compensation Scheme levy.
11/14/2021
FPC: Cloud Adoption
The regulators have now taken an action to review the need for additional policy measures
11/14/2021
EBA issues requirements on institutions’ Pillar 3 disclosure of interest rate risk exposures
The standards will amend the comprehensive ITS on institutions’ public disclosures
11/14/2021
Voluntary disclosure of sovereign exposures
The Committee has not reached a consensus to make any changes to the regulatory treatment of sovereign exposures
11/14/2021
Revisions to market risk disclosure requirements
The revised standard introduced a "traffic light" approach for capital requirements
11/14/2021
EBA publishes final draft technical standards on individual portfolio management by crowdfunding service providers
When investing in a portfolio of loans offered by crowdfunding service providers, investors may face potential information asymmetries.
11/12/2021
FCA fines London broker £600k over ‘suspicious’ offshore trades
The FCA found that Sunrise had deficient systems and controls to identify and mitigate the risk of facilitating fraudulent trading and money laundering in relation to business introduced by the Solo Group, between 17 February 2015 and 4 November 2015.
11/12/2021
Financial Regulation: Daily Update
The letter states that this expectation is no longer necessary and FMIs should now return to the approach in place prior to Covid-19.
11/12/2021
Financial Services and Banking News
The 2022 consultation will inform a decision on whether the authorities are content to move into a ‘development’ phase which will span several years.
11/12/2021
New rules for foreign subsidies - The European Commission’s approach to level the playing field
The Proposal builds on a Commission White Paper published for consultation in June 2020.
11/12/2021
CNPD publishes new guidelines on cookies
Cookies can be used for different purposes, i.e. to recognize a user's language choice or the products that the user had placed in his/her basket during a previous shopping session.
11/12/2021
Wrongdoing by directors cannot be attributed to their company, Supreme Court rules
The court rejected the CPS’s argument that the company was debarred from claiming the assets on the grounds that this involved seeking to profit from the proceeds of crime.