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Regulatory monitoring - July 2024

A&O Shearman on 8/6/2024

1. Bank regulation - 1.1 PRUDENTIAL REGULATION - a) General - (i) International - BCBS: Consultation on report regarding various technical amendments and FAQs - Status: Consultation - Deadline for the submission of...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

2024 Insights: Corporate Trends

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 12/22/2023

Global M&A Activity Endures Headwinds in 2023 and Displays Resilience Going Into 2024 - Despite market headwinds, dealmakers have looked to carveouts, spin-offs, joint ventures and other creative deal structures to engage...more

Update Zukunftsfinanzierungsgesetz – Fokus Aktien- und Kapitalmarktrecht

McDermott Will & Emery on 9/12/2023

Mit dem ehrgeizigen Ziel, die Leistungsfähigkeit des deutschen Kapitalmarkts zu stärken und die Attraktivität des deutschen Finanzstandortes auf dem europäischen Finanzplatz zu erhöhen, wurde am 12. April 2023 der...more

SFC and HKMA’s joint circular on streamlined approach for dealing with sophisticated professional investors (SPIs)

A&O Shearman on 8/9/2023

Wealth managers and advisers, and distributors in relation to non-retail investment products, for example interests in private equity funds or hedge funds, sustainability linked bonds and other private capital related...more

Norway Bulletin - April 2023

Conyers on 8/3/2023

We are pleased to bring you the Conyers Norway Bulletin for 2023, in which we highlight developments affecting Bermuda-based companies in the Norwegian market over the past year. Compared with global markets, the Oslo...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

International Capital Markets Newsletter Issue 1 – Spring 2019: International Securities Market – Two Years On

Dechert LLP on 6/5/2019

In March 2017, the London Stock Exchange Group (“LSEG”) announced a new debt multilateral trading facility (“MTF”) targeted at institutional and professional investors, the International Securities Market (the “ISM”). The ISM...more

Update on the Status of Initial Coin Offerings in Europe

White & Case LLP on 2/1/2019

With crypto-currencies on the rise and technological developments providing great opportunities in the financial services sector, Initial Coin Offerings ("ICO") provide an innovative way of raising capital. They are...more

Europe Insights

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 1/26/2018

Despite a year of continued global political uncertainty and increasing enforcement, shareholder activism and foreign investment control activity, the 2018 outlook for Europe is positive overall. Skadden partners in the U.K.,...more

Update on the New Prospectus Regime

Dechert LLP on 7/19/2017

As part of its Capital Markets Union action plan, in June 2017 the EU adopted the new Prospectus Regulation (2017/1129), which overhauls the prospectus regime and is intended to improve accessibility to capital markets for...more

Final EU Agreement on Draft Prospectus Rules as Part of Capital Markets Union

A&O Shearman on 1/16/2017

The Council of the European Union announced that it had reached an agreement with the European Parliament on prospectuses for the issuing and offering of securities. Finalization of the agreement comes after the provisional...more

Orrick's Financial Industry Week In Review

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 11/4/2016

Financial Industry Developments - SEC Adopts Final Rules to Facilitate Intrastate and Regional Securities Offerings - On October 26, 2016, the Securities and Exchange Commission adopted rules designed to modernize...more

Orrick's Financial Industry Week in Review

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 9/23/2016

Financial Industry Developments - OCC Discusses Marketplace Lending - On September 13, 2016, Comptroller of the Currency Thomas J. Curry discussed marketplace lending's risks and associated policy questions. He...more

"European Commission's New Initiative Aims to Promote Access to Capital Markets"

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 1/21/2016

In early 2015, the European Commission (Commission) launched the Capital Markets Union (CMU), one of its flagship initiatives, to address its perception that capital markets-based financing in the European Union could be...more

Fair and Effective Markets Review Publishes Final Report

Orrick - Finance 20/20 on 6/16/2015

On June 10, 2015, the Fair and Effective Markets Review (FEMR), established by the Chancellor in June 2014 to conduct a review of fixed income, currency and commodity markets, published its final report. The report contains...more

ESMA Issues Report Finding Tense EU Securities Market Conditions

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP on 3/19/2015

On March 11, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published its Report No. 1, 2015, on trends, risks and vulnerabilities in the European Union securities markets, covering the time period from July to December...more

FMLC Publishes Letter to European Commission on Reporting and Transparency of Securities Financing Transactions

Orrick - Finance 20/20 on 2/24/2015

On February 10, the UK Financial Markets Law Committee (FMLC) published a letter to the Director-General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union of the European Commission. The letter discusses...more

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