4/1/2025 7:01:37 PM Diversity Reporting in the EU Financial Sector: BaFin's General Ruling on Diversity Disclosures By Elisabeth Schemmer Jan Struckmann On 27 March 2025, the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) published a general ruling requiring significant German CRR...
4/1/2025 8:25:46 AM Product Risks Today: How the new Product Liability Directive facilitates private enforcement By Moritz Becker Anita Bell Hannah Meyer The EU’s new Product Liability Directive (PLD), effective as of 8 December 2024, brings significant updates to the 1985 product liability...
3/31/2025 3:46:57 PM The FCA’s plans for the next 5 years: rebalancing risk, supporting growth By Michael Raffan Noah Schmidt Jessica Frampton Christopher Bernard +1 more... Show less On 25 March 2025, the FCA published its new strategy for the next five years, with the stated goals of “deepening trust, rebalancing...
3/28/2025 3:54:11 PM The future of open banking: UK, EU, and US perspectives By Claire Harrop David Sewell Daniel Klingenbrunn Christopher Bernard Katrina Paliukenas +2 more... Show less Open banking promises to unlock innovation and empower customers by enabling financial information to be shared between traditional banks...
3/28/2025 2:54:18 PM The FCA’s Consumer Duty rule review: a spring clean, but no overhaul By Michael Raffan Christopher Bernard Daniel Tichbi One oft-criticised feature of the UK financial services regime is the complexity and the volume of the FCA’s handbook of rules and...
3/27/2025 7:55:49 PM Retrieval duty rejected: Court dismisses new duty for receiving banks in APP fraud By Anthea Bowater Christine Simpson Eleanor Turner The High Court’s recent judgment in Santander UK PLC v CCP Graduate School Ltd provides an important clarification of the duties owed by...
3/26/2025 9:27:56 AM A Growing Branch of Supply Chain Risk: the Timber Regulations By Matthew Bruce Tahleel Lateef Charlotte Dunn Introduction In recent years, multinational corporations have been under growing regulatory pressure to manage the risks which arise from...
3/25/2025 8:15:33 AM Navigating the SIAC Arbitration Rules 2025 By Nicholas Lingard Samantha Tan Rohit Bhat Desmond Chong Morgane Guyonnet +2 more... Show less Singapore has cemented its place as a global leader in arbitration. A recent Global Arbitration Review report has confirmed that...
3/24/2025 8:26:55 PM New sanctions legislation targeting sanctions circumvention – what does this mean for financial institutions? By Xiao Zhang Alicia Hildner Alexander Glos Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the EU has drastically tightened sanctions against Russia. Preventing the circumvention...
3/24/2025 10:12:19 AM Landmark decision on enforceability of “keepwell” bond arrangements By John Choong Bing Guan Niklas Wong On 19 March 2025, the Court of Final Appeal (CFA) in Hong Kong delivered its landmark and first-ever judgment dealing with the...
3/24/2025 9:03:08 AM REARM Europe: Antitrust considerations following the White Paper on Defence By Thomas Janssens Alex Potter Andreas von Bonin Conor Leavy Remony Vials +2 more... Show less Europe finds itself at a pivotal moment, simultaneously affected by both war and an international order undergoing significant change. ...
3/21/2025 3:30:37 PM The High Court affirms the FCA’s wide discretion in exercising its powers of redress By Piers Reynolds Jack Helyar Sharon Tong At a Glance On 7 March 2025, the High Court dismissed an application for judicial review by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Fair...