Feb 27, 2020 FCA updates net short position notification process By Carrie Gothard The FCA has changed the process by which firms must report their net short positions in UK-listed shares or sovereign debt which are...
Feb 24, 2020 Greening finance or financing green in the real estate industry By Macfarlanes The City Property Association (CPA) brought together a knowledgeable panel to discuss the evolution of green finance over the last 12...
Feb 20, 2020 Nothing changes but everything has changed: the UK government’s not so radical proposals for the post-Brexit immigration system By Macfarlanes The UK government has provided further details of the immigration system that it intends to implement when the post-Brexit transition...
Feb 18, 2020 Every cloud has a silver lining – EIOPA’s final report on outsourcing to the cloud By Macfarlanes Last week, the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) published its final report on outsourcing to cloud service...
Feb 17, 2020 ESG – what questions should you be asking? By Macfarlanes The Loan Syndications and Trading Association (LSTA) (the US equivalent of the Loan Market Association (LMA)) recently released a...
Feb 14, 2020 HMRC announces more investigations into the “failure to prevent” tax evasion offence By Neill Blundell Max Hobbs HMRC has released an update on its investigations of the relatively new corporate criminal offence (CCO) of failure to prevent the...
Feb 12, 2020 London Property Alliance reports on 2020 market prospects By Gwen Llewelyn Atkinson The State of the Market Seminar held by the London Property Alliance on Friday provided a timely opportunity to reflect on the real...
Feb 11, 2020 High Court distinguishes Prudential/Rothesay in approving Part VII transfer, suggesting limited appetite for interventionist approach By Alexander Cibulskis Andrew Barton The decision in Prudential/Rothesay last year, in which the judge rejected the proposed Part VII transfer of c.£12.9bn in annuity...
Feb 11, 2020 The numbers don’t lie By Macfarlanes The FCA is keen to put "on notice" any would-be market abusers of its much improved “radar” for detecting misconduct in the markets....
Feb 11, 2020 Surveyor conflicts of interest - RICS crackdown to come By Christine Dowdall-Platt Following recent scrutiny of the audit sector (due to widespread criticisms after various high-profile corporate failures, including the...
Feb 11, 2020 Contradictory sanctions regimes leave companies confused and exposed By Neill Blundell Francis Bond A special report by the Financial Times has investigated the tensions faced by companies struggling to navigate overlapping and sometimes...
Feb 10, 2020 Fine by me: could a small sanction for a breach of the SFO’s Section 2 Notice fail to deter non-compliance? By Neill Blundell Max Hobbs At the end of January 2020, the UK courts convicted an individual of failing to comply with the terms of a “Section 2 Notice” issued...
Feb 07, 2020 ESMA publishes final report on aligning MiFIR and EMIR Refit By Edward Karsten The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has today published a final report suggesting amendments to the derivatives trading...
Feb 06, 2020 Explain yourself: the Court of Appeal rejects the challenge to the first UWO By Neill Blundell Max Hobbs The Court of Appeal has dismissed the appeal against the first Unexplained Wealth Order (UWO) issued in the UK, potentially paving the...