The Irish government has been supportive of the development of the financial services sector in Ireland and this extends to fintech. The government’s strategy for the development of Ireland’s international financial services...more
In this week’s edition, our focus remains on carbon credits where the first ever set of “Core Carbon Principles”-labelled carbon credits were approved. The three European supervisory authorities publish their final reports on...more
The European Securities and Markets Authority has published its final report and technical advice to the European Commission on incorporating sustainability risks and factors into European regulation. The European Commission...more
BREXIT - Final EBA Outsourcing Guidelines: Impact on firms’ Brexit contingency plans - The EBA has published final guidelines on outsourcing (the EBA Guidelines), which will replace the guidelines issued by its predecessor,...more
BREXIT- Financial Services Contracts (Transitional and Saving Provision) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 made On 28 February, the Financial Services Contracts (Transitional and Saving Provision) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 were...more
Antitrust and Competition - Best Practices Code for State aid control adopted by the European Commission - On 16 July 2018, the European Commission adopted a Code of Best Practices for the conduct of State aid control...more
BREXIT - Draft Short Selling (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 - On 9 August, HMT published a draft version of the Short Selling (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 and an explanatory information document....more
BREXIT - FCA speech and new webpage on approach to Brexit - On 19 July, the FCA published a speech given by Nausicaa Delfas, FCA Executive Director of International, on the FCA's approach to Brexit. ...more
BREXIT - TheCityUK paper on continuity of cross-border financial contracts post-Brexit - On 20 June, TheCityUK published a paper on the continuity of cross-border financial contracts post-Brexit. In the paper, TheCityUK...more