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Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

FCA Proceeds with the ‘New’ Option for Investment Research Payments

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has recently published its Policy Statement on Payment Optionality for Investment Research (PS24/9), setting out its final rules on the new option to pay for investment research and...more

McDermott Will & Emery

English High Court Enforces Asymmetric Jurisdiction Clause in a Syndicated Loan Facility Agreement

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On 24 May 2024, the English High Court granted final injunctive relief to Barclays Bank Plc (Barclays), both in the form of an anti-suit injunction and an anti-enforcement injunction, arising out of a syndicated loan...more

White & Case LLP

Sector trends - July 2022: Payments

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UK & European Financial Services M&A: Sector trends H2 2021 | H1 2022 — Payments - Investor appetite is at an all-time high—while VC investors back growing service providers, PE investors supercharge IPO glide paths and...more

A&O Shearman

Tightening the Financial Promotions Framework in the UK

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Striking a balance between investor protection and market development - The U.K. is assessing its financial promotion framework, and changes are being made or proposed to amend the laws and rules. Financial promotions are...more

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The EU Taxonomy: the answer to the question "what is green?"

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The EU Taxonomy Regulation has now entered into force – a long awaited milestone in the sustainable finance market. The EU Taxonomy is a classification tool aimed at investors, companies and financial institutions to define...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

In Principle: 10 Things Authorised Firms Need to Know for 2018 – The World of Financial Regulation as the UK Prepares to Exit the...

There is much for authorised firms to consider in the year ahead. Firms have been through the intensive period of the enactment of the second Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II), but must now step up their...more

Dechert LLP

Financial Services Quarterly Report - Third Quarter 2017: Global Update: Regulators Focus on Initial Coin Offerings

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Since January 2017, more than $2 billion has been raised through the rapidly growing market for so-called “token sales” or “initial coin offerings” (ICOs). The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced on July...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

Regulation Round Up - February 2017

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The FCA and PRA announced changes to enforcement process with the aim of strengthening the transparency and effectiveness of enforcement decision-making processes. Some of the changes have already come into force, the rest...more

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Financial Support Directions: issues for banks and lenders

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The Pensions Regulator’s power to issue a financial support direction (FSD) could mean that a bank, lender or other corporate investor becomes obliged to provide financial support to a pension scheme to which it has little,...more

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Disclaimers effective to protect issuer from liability to secondary market investor – importance of basis or "duty-negating"...

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The Court of Appeal in Taberna Europe CDO II plc v Selskabet (formerly Roksilde Bank A/S) (In Bankruptcy) [2016] EWCA Civ 1262 overturned a ruling against the issuer of subordinated notes who, at first instance, was found to...more

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Abandoning Bolam: a new standard for advising on investment risk

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There has been a change in how the court will assess whether a financial advisor has used reasonable care and skill when giving investment advice. Following Supreme Court case law in the medical negligence field, Kerr J...more

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FMLC Publishes Response on Bail-in Powers

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In response to a consultation by HM Treasury, the UK’s Financial Markets Law Committee (FMLC) published a letter on June 4 relating to the bail-in powers introduced by the Financial Services (Banking Reform) Act 2013. This...more

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