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Fit and proper (FAP) requirements are among the key requirements that apply to board members of banks and other financial institutions....
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Mounting pressure to refresh merger guidelines When the European Commission (Commission) introduced its first guidelines on the...
On 24 April 2025, the FCA released a consultation paper CP 25/10 on the definition of capital for FCA investment firms. The FCA says it...
On 29 April 2025, HM Treasury published a draft statutory instrument in near-final form which will introduce a regulatory regime for...
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Authored by the DR Madrid team On 3 January 2025, the Official State Gazette published the Organic Law 1/2025, of 2 January, on measures...
On 17 April 2025, the English High Court delivered its judgment in CC/Devas v India [2025] EWHC 964 (Comm). The judgment holds that...
The UK’s advertising regulator, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), recently published its 2024 Annual Report (here). This...
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On 30 April 2025, the FCA announced that it has paused its plans to extend the Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (SDR) and...
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At the beginning of April 2025, the conservatives (CDU/CSU) and the social democrats (SPD) presented their coalition agreement, titled...
In Germany, a new administration is about to come into office following the 2025 federal elections. Friedrich Merz, leader of the...
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In Part I, we analysed the reasons why economic sanctions, export controls, and associated investigation risks should be prioritised by...
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Until recently, most EU businesses importing products from the US have not had to worry about the intricacies of EU customs law, as EU...