09/08/2021
Financial Regulation: Daily Update
The update details the FCA's decision to not extend the temporary guidance on maturing interest-only and part-and-part mortgages in PS20/11, which will expire on 31 October 2021.
Legal, Regulation & Compliance
09/07/2021
ABN Amro to compensate clients for variable interest excesses
This scheme offers a solution for all clients involved.
09/07/2021
Package designed to ensure financial market development and investor protection in the market
Changes regarding the tender offer to subscribe for the sale or exchange of shares in a company
09/07/2021
UBS: Another rumor of sale in Madrid
Because last April the Madrid branch had already been sold to the Fürstenbank LGT or the Swiss-Brazilian private bank J. Safra Sarasin in Spain .
09/07/2021
Disclosure of Beneficial Ownership in 2021 – Luxembourg Perspectives
The Luxembourg Beneficial Ownership regulatory framework has been completed first with the issuance on February 15, 2019
09/07/2021
Financial Regulation: Daily Update
This would mean that short-term liabilities owed to these firms will continue to be exempt from bail-in under the Banking Act.
09/07/2021
24 lords placed under investigation over financial interests
Probe by the Standards Commissioner follows openDemocracy revelations of ‘shocking lack of transparency’, in one of the widest-scale breaches ever exposed
09/06/2021
German state-owned bank fined for Angolan loan exposed in Luanda Leaks
KfW-Ipex-Bank, an import-export bank, had loaned more than $55 million through an Angolan bank to a brewery controlled by Isabel dos Santos.
09/06/2021
Lloyds taken to court over mortgages tied to property values
The case is against the Bank of Scotland, which Lloyds merged with back in 2008 as part of a £12bn deal during the financial crisis to create the UK’s largest retail bank.
09/06/2021
Global CEO confidence returns to pre-pandemic levels
Launching aggressive M&A plans to capture market opportunities
09/06/2021
FRC announces 125 'successful' signatories to new UK Stewardship Code as one-third of applicants fail to make list
Received 189 applications, 147 from asset managers
09/06/2021
SRD II: Transforming Global Proxy Voting And Shareholder Disclosure
Investor communications is a core competency, at the heart of Broadridge.
09/06/2021
Financial Regulation: Daily Update
The FCA has updated its webpages on the Green FinTech Challenge and the Digital Sandbox.
09/05/2021
Luxembourg Plans To Give Its Business Registry More Teeth
The move comes six months after a group of international journalists, coordinated by OCCRP, published their OpenLux investigations, revealing how the country’s opaque financial system allows criminals and the corrupt to avoid taxes and launder their
09/05/2021
Financial Regulation Daily Update
Led by the Innovation Hub’s Singapore Centre, Project Dunbar aims to develop prototype shared platforms for cross-border transactions using multiple CBDCs.
09/05/2021
IBOR Transition
The purpose of the synthetic rates would be to support an orderly runoff of difficult-to-amend legacy contracts.
09/03/2021
A Guide to FCA Policy Statements and Final Consultation on IFPR and A Guide to the MIFIDPRU Remuneration Code
The FCA also published its (third and) final consultation paper on the IFPR, CP21/26, on 6 August 2021.
09/03/2021
IFLR1000 recognizes Dentons lawyers and practice teams across EMEA
Altogether, 94 lawyers received Highly Regarded rankings and 61 were awarded a Notable Practitioner rating.
09/03/2021
UK prioritises US data transfers agreement
The government’s plans in relation to bolstering international data transfers also include the formation of a new International Data Transfers Expert Council.
09/03/2021
UK data protection reform planned
The previous UK Data Protection Act implemented the 1995 EU directive and had been in force since 1998.