28 Apr 2022 Government consults on post-Brexit prudential regime for insurers By Alexander Cibulskis Today the government has released a new consultation paper on its proposal for significant reforms to Solvency II – the prudential...
01 Mar 2022 Overseas Funds Regime: "live" but not yet kicking By Lora Froud Dominic Buxton Gavin Haran The Government has made and published Regulations that brought the Overseas Funds Regime (OFR) into effect from 23 February 2022. This is...
27 Jan 2022 Trading for visas: UK considers easing visa requirements for Indian nationals By Tom Marsom When the UK left the UK-EU transition period on 31 December 2021, it ended free trade of goods and services with a trading bloc of 450m...
11 Nov 2021 Christmas comes early for clearing – UK CCP temporary equivalence to be extended By Edward Karsten Rob Daniell Christine Long Pursuant to a statement published yesterday, Mairead McGuinness, European commissioner for financial services announced an extension to...
27 Oct 2021 UK Budget and immigration - Chancellor confirms 2022 high skilled visa plans By Tom Marsom Today, the UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer announced the Government’s fiscal plans for the immediate and near future. Amongst the tax...
09 Sep 2021 The missing cornerstone in sustainable finance: investee company ESG reporting By Lora Froud Tiffany Cox Gavin Haran The rush to regulate financial markets to produce ESG outcomes has brought focus to a problem: in the absence of good quality ESG data...
26 Aug 2021 Brexit plus Covid-19 plus immigration policy equals acute labour shortages By Tom Marsom Back in December 2020, just before the end of the Brexit transition period which marked the final withdrawal of the UK from the EU's...
30 Jul 2021 A degree and potential? Welcome to the UK! By Anske Venter As free movement between the UK and the European Union ended on 31 December 2020, the UK Government is considering opening a new visa...
08 Jul 2021 Britannia’s tax collectors rule the waves? By Damiano Sogaro Charishma Bhujohory Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) maintained that no additional UK value added tax (VAT) would be payable by owners of pleasure...
07 Jun 2021 Chaperoning as a means to market in EU post-Brexit under threat By Harriet Miller The financial trade press (e.g. see Financial News) is reporting that certain EU regulators have questioned the ability for a UK firm to...
07 Apr 2021 Five things we have learned about the Brexit MoU By Gavin Haran The Brexit Trade and Cooperation Agreement did not specifically address financial services. However, the EU and the UK did commit to...
07 Apr 2021 Covid-19 related amendments to the EU securitisation regulation and ESAs opinion on its jurisdictional scope By Ryan Moore Edward Karsten Richard Fletcher Jamie Macpherson +1 more... Show less Covid-19 related amendments to the EU Securitisation RegulationThe European Parliament and the Council of the European adopted Regulation...
31 Mar 2021 Pension scheme arrangements clearing exemption – proposed EMIR extension and the UK’s approach By Edward Karsten William Sykes EU law – current lawEMIR, as amended by EMIR Refit, provides that certain pension scheme arrangements are temporarily exempt from the...
23 Mar 2021 How has Brexit changed disputes with contractors or suppliers based in the EU? By Richard Alam The rules relating to disputes with a European element have changed as a result of Brexit and the end of the UK’s transition period on 31...
05 Mar 2021 FCA scrutinises asset managers’ product governance By Alexandra Green Gavin Haran The FCA has published the results of its review into UK asset managers’ implementation of the MiFID II product governance rules. The FCA...
03 Feb 2021 What does Brexit mean for my EU trade marks? By Martha Campbell Since 1 January 2021, EU trade marks have no longer been protected under the UK trade mark regime as a result of the UK leaving the EU....