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 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 EU reaches positive agreement on ELTIF reforms By Samuel Brooks Gavin Haran Tiffany Cox Negotiations have concluded between the European Council and the European Parliament on changes to the European Long Term Investment Fund...
Oct 13, 2022 Nature based climate solutions and the LSE’s Voluntary Carbon Market By Rachel Richardson Climate scientists now believe that there is a 50% probability of the earth’s average temperature exceeding 1.5 degrees celsius above...
Jul 21, 2022 “History may not repeat itself. But it rhymes”; misconduct in wholesale markets By Dan Lavender Laura Bridgewater We are delighted to have assisted the Financial Markets Standards Board with its second edition of the Behaviour-pattern Conduct Analysis...
Jun 21, 2022 Know your fraud: specific fraud risk rather than general red flags are needed to invoke the Quincecare duty By Lorna Emson Nikolas Ireland James Reid The Quincecare duty has made the news once again. We recently commented on RBS v JP SPC 4 & another [2022] UKPC 18 and Philipp v Barclays...
May 23, 2022 The limit of Quincecare: Privy Council holds that banks do not owe a tortious duty of care to non-customers By Lorna Emson Nikolas Ireland James Reid In its recent judgment in RBS v JP SPC 4 & another [2022] UKPC 18 the Privy Council has provided an important insight into the scope of...
May 19, 2022 An EU retail passport for alternative funds? By Gavin Haran Lora Froud The EU’s review of the Alternative Investment Funds Management Directive, or AIFMD 2, is underway. The EU’s institutions are currently...
Apr 27, 2022 FCA implements new requirements for board and executive diversity reporting By Dominic Sedghi Dan Lavender Helen Harvey Macfarlanes' Corporate Law Update reported on the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)’s recently-published policy statement on diversity...
Mar 23, 2022 UK Prospectus Regime Reform Review Outcome: is this the path to a complete rethink? By Richard Fletcher Clare Golding The UK Prospectus Regime Review Outcome (PRRO) published by HM Treasury at the beginning of March 2022 gives us further insight into the...
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...
Feb 11, 2022 Derivatives – UK CCP equivalence extended to 2025 By Edward Karsten William Sykes Following a statement by Mairead McGuinness, European commissioner for financial services, towards the end of last year, the European...
Feb 03, 2022 ESMA’s briefing on tied agents: UK managers in the firing line? By Gavin Haran ESMA’s supervisory briefing on supervisory expectations in relation to firms using tied agents in the MiFID II framework will be...
Feb 02, 2022 Clearing – potential one-year extension to pension schemes exemption, but further extensions unlikely By Edward Karsten William Sykes The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has sent a letter to the European Commission (EC) recommending that the temporary...
Feb 02, 2022 FCA’s views on operational resilience: are you ready for 31 March 2022 deadline? By Joy Davey Banks, insurers and enhanced-scope SMCR firms will have to comply with the operational resiliency requirements that come into force on 31...
Jan 24, 2022 Asset valuation: EU managers under scrutiny By Sandeesh Shah ESMA has announced that it is launching its third common supervisory action (CSA) on the EU asset management sector, this time focusing...