Securities, Environmental Social & Governance (ESG), Capital Markets

FCA publishes final rules on POATR framework and UK Listing Rules

A&O Shearman on 7/31/2025

The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published final policy statement (PS25/9) to implement the new Public Offers and Admissions to Trading Regulations 2024 (POATRs), which will replace the UK Prospectus Regulation....more

Asset Management Regulatory Year in Review 2024

K&L Gates LLP on 2/12/2025

2024 was a year of meaningful regulatory change for asset managers globally. The regulatory activity was wide ranging and without a particular unifying theme. In fact, the wide, and in cases diverging focuses of key global...more

Hong Kong’s Security Tokenization Support Initiative – A Subsidy Program

K&L Gates LLP on 2/3/2025

Recently, Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) initiated accepting applications for Digital Bond Grant Scheme (the Grant Scheme) to financially support digital bond issuers for the duration of three years. The Grant Scheme...more

Outline CRR III / CRD VI - Final Basel III Standards

Mayer Brown on 6/21/2024

I. IMPLEMENTING BASEL III THROUGH THE CRR III REGULATION - The Basel III standards comprise a package of reforms that were largely agreed by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision ("BCBS") in December 2017 and set out...more

Amendments to the Mexican Securities Market Law and the Investment Funds Law

White & Case LLP on 1/30/2024

On December 28, 2023, a decree was published to reform and add several provisions to the Mexican Securities Market Law (Ley del Mercado de Valores) and the Investment Funds Law (Ley de Fondos de Inversión) (the "Reform...more

Skadden’s 2023 Insights – Five Critical Areas for the Year Ahead

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 12/14/2022

The pandemic’s impact may be subsiding, but businesses are encountering new challenges across the globe, including the potential for an economic retrenchment, rising interest rates, shifting regulatory and litigation...more