08/19/2016
Five partners quit Irwin Mitchell's London real estate team including four joining Dentons
Dentons recruits four-partner City real estate team comprising former SJ Berwin partners
Legal, Regulation & Compliance
08/19/2016
Swap Use Probed in Sweden as Nordea Finalizes $9.5 Billion Deal
Nordea plans to transfer the credit risk on 8.4 billion euros ($9.5 billion) of corporate loans to investors
08/18/2016
London Stock Exchange merger now heads to the regulators as Deutsche Boerse seals investor support
We will now focus on achieving the necessary regulatory and anti-trust approvals.
08/18/2016
Steve Meiklejohn keynote speech at Jersey Finance's Annual Private Wealth Conference 2016
Steve Meiklejohn, Partner, Ogier, presented a keynote speech at Jersey Finance's Annual Private Wealth Conference on Wednesday 27 April 2016.
08/18/2016
Regulator fines professional trustee £6k
TPR stated it had applied the full fine to PTL because it was a professional trustee, and there were no mitigating circumstances.
08/18/2016
Cyprus offers Thai investors EU citizenship
Competitive deals over its EU counterparts include lower capital-gains tax and lower minimum capital
08/18/2016
City lawyer who rowed for England 'lifted woman's skirt to slap her bottom and tipped beer over her as he called her an 'Australian slut'
He previously worked for Coutts private bank.
08/17/2016
HMRC plans tougher penalties for accountants and advisers who help clients dodge taxes
Accountants and advisers could be liable to pay a fine of up to 100% of the tax their clients underpaid.
08/17/2016
FCA statement on consultation on CASS rules for insurance intermediaries
The FCA has published a statement on its consultation (CP12/20) on the review of client money rules for insurance intermediaries.The statement provides an update on CP12/20, published in August 2012,
08/17/2016
Insurance Act 2015 now in force
This is the most significant reform of UK insurance law in over 100 year
08/16/2016
FCA spends over £1m on asset management study
The FCA set out the terms of reference for the asset management review last year, which is aiming to establish whether competition is working in the fund manager industry and whether investors are getting value for money.
08/15/2016
Scotland has become a money-laundering factory for Soviet criminal gun-runners
Now Mafia monitoring group CRiME has warned that Scotland has become a money-laundering factory for criminal gun-runners hiding behind SLPs.
08/15/2016
UK regulator delays publishing findings of asset management review
FCA pushes back publication of the findings of its investigation into the asset management industry
08/15/2016
Charity regulator defends role after scandals
Charity Commission chairman says trustees should have been alert to bad practices
08/15/2016
SMR: what do financial institutions need to know? Neil Vernon, CTO at Gresham
On March 7th, one of the most important and controversial financial regimes since 2008 came into force – The Senior Managers Regime (SMR).
08/15/2016
JFSC signs MoU with Liechtenstein’s Financial Market Authority
The JFSC has MoUs (either on a bilateral or multilateral basis) with regulators in over 90 countries.
08/14/2016
Curaçao, St. Maarten have Dijsselbloem concerned
The Dutch Caribbean countries are primarily responsible for their own affairs and intervention by The Hague is only possible when there is insufficient redress.
08/12/2016
Acquiring a UK Business: key legal issues for US purchasers - Withers
The devaluation of sterling has resulted in some of our US clients exploring acquisition opportunities in sectors where they perceive value
08/12/2016
How ambitious millennial interns are taking over London's banks and law firms
With the execs off sunning themselves, ambitious millennials are running the show at London’s banks and law firms this summer.
08/12/2016
Funds - Ireland - Quarterly Update Q2 - Maples and Calder
April - June 2016