Aug 24, 2020 AMF doctrine: latest ESG disclosure requirements for UCITS and retail AIFs in France By Katie Bartlett In March 2020, the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) published Position-Recommendation 2020-03 on the "information to be provided by...
Aug 24, 2020 Fintech: what's really in a name? By Macfarlanes Well, as reported by Financial News's Ryan Weeks in the Fintech Files of 20 August, quite a bit. Why? If regulatory bodies around the...
Aug 21, 2020 City Property Association discusses the return of the workforce By Rebecca Delaney Emily Chandler In March 2020, London suffered an unexpected and unprecedented shutdown as a result of the lockdown guidance issued by the Government....
Aug 21, 2020 AIFMD review: ESMA goes after delegation structures By Samuel Brooks In a letter that is attracting significant attention, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has made several...
Aug 20, 2020 FCA investigations into sanctions matters shrinks By Macfarlanes A FOIA submitted by the Global Investigations Review has revealed that the number of open investigations into sanctions breaches by the...
Aug 19, 2020 ESMA provides updated XML schema and reporting instructions for securitisation reporting By Edward Karsten ESMA has today published updated reporting instructions and XML schema (version 1.2.0) for the templates set out in the technical...
Aug 19, 2020 Another brick in the wall: HMRC fines estate agency for AML failures By Neill Blundell Max Hobbs An online estate agent has been fined £266,793 by HMRC for its failure to comply with the anti-money laundering legislation. Estate...
Aug 14, 2020 20 questions: what is HMRC thinking? By Damiano Sogaro Edward Reed In a game of 20 questions, the aim is to guess what one person is thinking. But the full 20 questions are not necessary to divine HMRC’s...
Aug 13, 2020 Financial Support Directions: what will the Pensions Regulator consider "satisfactory financial support"? By Camilla Barry Jessica Lewis Back in May 2018, the Upper Tribunal handed down a significant judgment in the case of ITV plc v The Pensions Regulator. Our previous...
Aug 12, 2020 Life sciences: a bright spark for UK real estate By Macfarlanes The Bisnow webinar Life Sciences: The Birth Of A New Real Estate Titan gave a fascinating insight into the rapidly expanding real estate...
Aug 06, 2020 Planning for the future – Government proposals for reform By Rebecca Delaney Changes to the planning system in England, announced today (6 August 2020) by housing minister Robert Jenrick, have been heralded as...
Aug 06, 2020 High Court guidance on open justice and third party access to court documents By Barry Donnelly Jonathan Pratt Litigation is a public process and “open justice” is a fundamental feature of the English justice system. The purpose of the principle is...
Aug 05, 2020 Garmin/Firstbeat – the sports technology deal that’s more than meets the eye By Andrew Morrison Whilst Google’s acquisition of Fitbit (now referred to a Phase II investigation) might be the headline news, for those with an interest...
Aug 04, 2020 FCA proposes redemption notice periods for UK authorised property funds By Tiffany Cox Yesterday, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published a consultation paper on the liquidity mismatch in authorised open-ended...
Aug 04, 2020 What should businesses expect in a competition policy response to the coronavirus pandemic? By Macfarlanes Two weeks ago, the Institute for Public Policy Research published a paper titled “How should competition policy react to the...
Aug 03, 2020 Covid-19: Putting the "S" in ESG By Emma Garnham One consequence of the Covid-19 outbreak has been to shine the spotlight on the social element of ESG and what the value of targeting...