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European restructuring in 2025: four trends shaping the legal landscape

Ropes & Gray LLP on 7/9/2025

At the GRR: Women in Restructuring 2025 conference, leading practitioners dissected the year’s most significant developments in global insolvency and restructuring. Here, we distill the essential legal and market insights...more

Jones Day Cross-Border Investigations Series 2023 - Issue 1 : Whistleblowing

Jones Day on 5/15/2023

While there are a number of ways in which organizations may become aware of potential wrongdoing internally, perhaps the most significant for its legal and compliance teams is internal reporting, or “whistleblowing,” by...more

Doing Fintech Business in the UK: Regulatory Q&A for US and Other Non-UK Businesses

Goodwin on 5/1/2023

With more fintech’s looking to expand their businesses internationally, it can be daunting to navigate varying regulations across borders. This article focuses on regulations in the United Kingdom....more

The Share Trading Obligations – A New Year’s Mess

BCLP on 12/23/2020

Diverging approaches to Share Trading Obligations from the FCA and ESMA pose challenges for investment firms in a post-Brexit Europe. With 1 January 2021 creeping closer and the hope of securing an effective Brexit deal...more

Global Payments Newsletter, October 2020

Hogan Lovells on 10/29/2020

Europe: European Commission communication on EU Retail Payments Strategy - On 24 September 2020 the European Commission published a communication setting out an EU Retail Payments Strategy identifying key priorities and...more

UK Firms Granted Extra 15 Months for Brexit Onshoring Preparations

Latham & Watkins LLP on 10/20/2020

The FCA, Bank of England, and PRA have published updated rules for firms post-Brexit and intend to delay many (but not all) onshoring changes. Key Points: ..The FCA has published an updated version of the FCA Handbook,...more

Financial institutions general regulatory news, July 2020 #4

Hogan Lovells on 7/29/2020

BigTech: International Banking Federation report - The House of Lords EU Services Sub-Committee has published the letter it has sent to John Glen, Economic Secretary and City Minister, on the UK-EU negotiations in...more

AMF Proposals to Revive the Research Industry in France

Latham & Watkins LLP on 2/19/2020

The AMF has published a report containing a number of new proposals relating to production of research under MiFID II. Key Points: ..The report pointedly criticises the original MiFID requirements (most of which were...more

Crypto Coming of Age: UK Regulation Hits Cryptoasset Business

Latham & Watkins LLP on 1/13/2020

New regulatory requirements, including registration and customer disclosure requirements, apply to regulated and unregulated persons carrying on relevant cryptoasset business. On 20 December 2019, the UK government published...more

Brexit: 10 Commonly Asked Questions

Latham & Watkins LLP on 1/7/2020

Q&As for UK Regulated Firms - Although the general election result has provided some certainty in relation to what happens next from a Brexit perspective, there are still many outstanding questions. In addition, a large...more

Financial Daily Dose 12.20.2019 | Goldman nearing $2B deal with DOJ to resolve 1MDB scandal claims

Robins Kaplan LLP on 12/20/2019

Goldman Sachs is reportedly in negotiations with federal prosecutors to resolve claims about its role in the Malaysian 1MDB scandal for upwards of $2 billion. A settlement—which “could include a guilty plea from Goldman’s...more

PSD2 Open Banking update and operational issues with regulators’ registers

BCLP on 12/11/2019

The open banking requirements under the Payment Services Directive (EU) 2015/2366 (“PSD2”) are now in force, under which an account servicing payment service provider (“ASPSP”) must grant an authorised third party service...more

Regulation Round Up - November 2019

Proskauer Rose LLP on 12/4/2019

1 November - The Prudential Regulation Authority ("PRA") published a Dear CEO letter in relation to the reliability of regulatory returns. Firms are expected, if asked, to be able to respond promptly to a request from...more

Getting The Deal Through - Cloud Computing 2020

BCLP on 11/21/2019

What kinds of cloud computing transactions take place in your jurisdiction? As a G7 economy with mature IT and related services markets, the UK is one of the most important global markets for cloud computing. According to...more

Cross-Border Investigations Update - September 2019

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 10/3/2019

This issue of Skadden’s semiannual Cross-Border Investigations Update takes a close look at recent cases, regulatory activity and other key developments, including a review of the first year of GDPR enforcement, analysis of...more

Financial Regulatory Observer – June 2019: No-deal Brexit: Challenges for trading venues and their participants

White & Case LLP on 7/1/2019

There is no silver bullet for maintaining cross-border trading if the UK leaves the EU without a deal. The date of Brexit has been delayed until (at least) October 31, 2019, but there is little sign that financial...more

Payer Liability under PSD2

BCLP on 6/27/2019

Under Article 74 of the Payment Services Directive (EU) 2015/2366 (“PSD2”), a payer may be required to bear the losses of unauthorised payment transactions up to a maximum of €50 provided the specified conditions are met....more

Financial Regulatory Observer – March 2019: FRO in-depth: The future of cryptoassets regulation

White & Case LLP on 4/1/2019

Partners Julia Smithers Excell and Stuart Willey, and associate Laura Kitchen of global law firm White & Case take a deep dive on the latest publications from EU and UK regulators aimed at providing supervisory clarity on the...more

Corporate Insurance Newsletter – June 2018

Hogan Lovells on 7/5/2018

The Hogan Lovells’ Corporate Insurance Newsletter for June has been published. This provides a round-up of UK, EU and international regulatory developments relevant to UK based insurance market participants. ...more

Cross-Border Investigations Update - November 2017

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 12/2/2017

This issue of Skadden’s semiannual Cross-Border Investigations Update takes a close look at recent cases, regulatory activity and other key developments, including new U.K. reporting obligations for sanctions violations,...more

Orrick's Financial Industry Week in Review - December 10, 2013

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 12/10/2013

Council of EU Publishes UK Issues Paper on MLD4 - On November 24, the Council of the European Union published a note (dated November 8, 2013) from the Council Presidency to Council Delegations which includes a UK...more

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