04/07/2021

New watchdog to boost online competition launches

A tough new regulator to help make sure tech giants such as Facebook and Google cannot exploit their market dominance to crowd out competition and stifle innovation online has launched.

04/07/2021

Data Protection Developments in Europe

These developments are restricting the ways in which businesses can share personal data within their organizations and with counterparties internationally.

04/06/2021

Key trends from the boardroom in 2021

This has been further exacerbated by the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the financial system, leading to a push by investors for ESG-focused initiatives and an increased emphasis on a company’s responsibilities towards wider society.

04/06/2021

The SFDR – get it right from the start

The SFDR has now become a reality, with EU funds and non-EU AIFs marketed within the EU being obliged, as an initial step, to have updated their prospectuses by 10 March 2021, requiring investment managers to classify their fund product into one of three

04/06/2021

Financial Regulation: Daily Update

The FCA notes that while the industry has made progress in encouraging more widespread Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) coverage among non-EEA third country issuers, there are still many non-EEA third country issuers without a LEI.

04/04/2021

Groupthink: is your Board immune to this risk?

The fact that directors reached consensus views in advance of Board meetings, leading to insufficient debate and a blindness to colleague concerns, was also cited as an example of poor governance approach.