03/31/2021
Sustainability experts from the Environment Agency and the HS2 rail project are working with CSIC to help explore and develop the code and to help build wider engagement.
03/31/2021
The consultation will consider the structural features and enhanced disclosure, including a minimum market capitalisation and a redemption option for investors, required to provide appropriate investor protection.
03/31/2021
The draft bill aims to expand the hitherto incomplete protection of whistleblowers and create legal certainty for them.
03/31/2021
In the UK, SPACs are considered cash shells which are not eligible for listing on the Premium segment of the Official List
03/31/2021
The Marketing Rules also provide that where a draft prospectus or offering memorandum is provided as part of “pre-marketing”
03/31/2021
The acquisition will be funded by equity to be invested by funds managed by TDR Capital LLP and it is intended the acquisition will be implemented by way of a court-sanctioned scheme of arrangement.
03/31/2021
All firms are also reminded of the need to have regard to previous FOS decisions when they are dealing with complaints.
03/30/2021
Co-op Legal Services warns of digital assets time bomb as 'unclaimed funds' pot swells
Figures released by Finder in February 2021* show that almost a fifth (19%) of Brits say they’ve now bought cryptocurrency - equivalent to 9.8 million people - meaning that the number of crypto-users in the UK has surged by 558% since the beginning
03/30/2021
A new year, a new set of arbitral rules: a summary of the key changes introduced in the 2021 ICC arbitration rules
This introduces greater flexibility in the manner in which hearings are conducted and allows for parties’ to ensure their voices are heard and cases are plead even if they are prevented from traveling physically to a hearing.
03/30/2021
Financial Regulation: Daily Update
The action outlined in the Decision Notice is therefore provisional and will have no effect pending the determination of the case by the Upper Tribunal.
03/30/2021
Where new LIBOR transactions are entered into, market participants should be aware of the risks and take appropriate steps to establish that their clients are too.
03/30/2021
The new licence expands Sanne’s already well-established product offering to cater for Irish domiciled closed-ended funds.
03/30/2021
The claimants contended that their loans were tainted by false representations on LIBOR.
03/30/2021
Based on two illiquid securities
03/30/2021
Judge Tony Baumgartner dismissed the restraint orders on Torzi, who denies charges of embezzlement, fraud, extortion and money laundering.
03/30/2021
The first quarter of 2021 was most notable for the bond tantrum as inflation expectations in the market started to adjust to the reality of higher prices.
03/30/2021
A SPAC is essentially a shell company formed with no business purpose or undertaking other than to raise funds for some future undefined object, and then later use the proceeds of that offering to acquire a private company in a reverse merger.
03/30/2021
ESMA believes it is crucial, to ensure independent good quality ratings and to protect investors, that CRAs carefully identify, and subsequently eliminate or manage and disclose conflicts of interest to avoid interference by shareholders with the rating p
03/30/2021
The news comes weeks after Davy was fined €4.1 million by Ireland’s Central Bank for a number of regulatory breaches related to a 2014 transaction.
03/29/2021
European supervisory authority issues €8.15m fine for international data transfer and processing failings
This case demonstrates that organisations that transfer