Feb 17, 2023 Home Office decides not to appeal landmark EU Settlement Scheme judgment By Tom Marsom Just before Christmas 2022, the High Court ruled against the Home Office on the legality of the two step EU Settlement Scheme application...
Dec 14, 2022 Will the Edinburgh Reforms make a difference? By Alexandra Green Michael Sholem Gavin Haran On 9 December, the Chancellor announced a package of over 30 reforms to the UK’s financial regulations, an attempt to achieve the biggest...
Nov 29, 2022 Transparency, but not at any cost By Dominic Sedghi In a significant judgment, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has struck down provisions of European Union law that give...
Nov 29, 2022 A new dawn for EU "substance" requirements? By Gavin Haran At the Irish Funds’ UK symposium on 24 November, the Central Bank of Ireland’s (CBI's) Derville Rowland made an ominous remark in her...
Oct 20, 2022 No joy for UK investors just yet as immigration rule changes are published By Tom Marsom The Home Office tends to serve up major changes to the Immigration Rules twice a year, in Spring and Autumn, with emergency measures...
Sep 22, 2022 UK to begin roll-out of electronic travel authorisation programme from January 2023 By Tom Marsom If you have ever travelled to the US as a visitor, you may be familiar with ESTAs. ESTA is a US government programme which allows you to...
Aug 04, 2022 The impact of the war in Ukraine on the Home Office By Tom Marsom The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 created a refugee crisis as almost four million, mostly, women and children fled the...
Apr 28, 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...
Mar 01, 2022 Overseas Funds Regime: "live" but not yet kicking By Lora Froud Gavin Haran The Government has made and published Regulations that brought the Overseas Funds Regime (OFR) into effect from 23 February 2022. This is...
Jan 27, 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...
Nov 11, 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...
Oct 27, 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...
Sep 09, 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...
Aug 26, 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...
Jul 30, 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...
Jul 08, 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...