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
Legal, Regulation & Compliance
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.
09/03/2021
Pilatus wants compensation, alleges corruption in MFSA’s choice for liquidation lawyers
Pilatus Bank owners file World Bank arbitration claim for damages in shuttering of bank in 2019, and claims choice of law firm Mamo TCV was to the benefit of incoming MFSA chairman John Mamo
09/03/2021
Should Swiss Banks Worry About EU Asset Register?
A tender for a feasibility study by the bloc on a potential asset register has sparked fears about the prospect of citizens having to account for every last cent.